Longturns

Since 1985 we have committed ourselves to the development of quality suspension elements for motorcycles, sidecars, ATV’s, Quads and cars. During the first 10 years the north-slope of the German Nürburgring, also known as “the green hell”, served as our practical laboratory where we exercised adjustments and long-term tests. Later we realised that our products might even be better tested if we brought them to the most unfriendly climates and hostile environments. We decided to install our shock absorbers into desert-rally motorbikes and offered them to globetrotters who travelled aroand the world.

Thus, our shocks participated in a summer rally to Siberia, all the way through mud and morass. Such unfriendly territory gravely afflicts the suspension system so that you have to multiply any driven kilometre with 10 to describe the actual wear off. Afterwards, Wilbers suspension systems made a winter trip to Siberia, at chilling temperatures of minus 45° centigrade. Again this trip was the best possibility to test for example suspension oils or piston rod materials. A piston rod machined of inferior material is turning so brittle at minus 45° that it is likely to break at even minor loads.