After each ride they stop at my pit for a de-brief and adjustments.

We had 13 suspension adjustment clients today with MotoYard at Willow Springs.   They are all happy!

One guy took 7 seconds off his lap time, onother took 3 seconds off.

One guy was not sure I was worth 50 bucks, after all, he already paid someone else $30 to do the same thing.   After watching what I did for his friends bike, he hired me anyway.   When I asked him later if it was worth it he said, YES!

One guys steering head bearings were so loose the whole front end flopped back and forth when I bounced on the bike, fixed that too.

Their tires had less wear.

They went faster with less risk.

Lindemann Engineering and EDventure Racing, we make riding your bike in the sunshine even better!

John 29 has a SV1000 and a TZ 250, Tony 617 has a TZ 250 and Ed 31 has a CBR 600F1. We are ready for the race weekend. What are you doing?

We are very happy to announce that Lindemann Engineering has agreed to sponsor Kenny as he moves into 125 GP racing in 2012. Lindemann will be handling suspension setup, configuration, tuning, and repair on our Honda RS125 motorcycles. In addition, owner Ed Sorbo brings a wealth of knowledge and four decades of racing experience to our team. We are very proud and honored to work with such a capable person and company.

Suspension tuning is something that we do not have much experience with. During five years of mini racing, most of Kenny’s motorcycles either had no suspension, or were very limited in how they could be adjusted. 125 GP motorcycle suspensions have a huge range of adjustability, and if not properly set up they can be very difficult to ride. Knowing our limitations in this area, I was very concerned about how we would fare.

Lindemann Engineering has already rebuilt and revalved the forks and shocks on all of our motorcycles, ensuring that they are all properly configured for Kenny’s weight. After a little track time this weekend, Ed was able to get our suspensions perfectly dialed in. Despite all the stress of moving up to the big leagues this year, I can honestly say that I have zero stress about our suspension setup. It’s a great relief to know that no matter what, that aspect of our motorcycles will always be ready to go.

Thank you Lindeman Engineering!

Eric Anderson
Father of Kenny Anderson #12

Lindemann Engineering To Provide Suspension Services at Motoyard Track Days in 2012.

Motoyard Trackdays and Lindemann Engineering have teamed up to provide track day riders with services designed to enhance their high-speed motorcycling experiences.

Lindemann Engineering, owned by former AMA Pro Racing rider and crew chief Ed Sorbo of EDventure Racing, will be on-hand to provide suspension tuning services at the entire series of Motoyard track days in 2012.

Lindemann Engineering performs everything from basic suspension set-up to complete suspension component overhaul, and is equipped to work with riders throughout the day as they dial in their motorcycles to the optimal configuration. When the suspension works well, riding is faster, easier and more confidence-inspiring.

Motoyard has scheduled a full slate of track days in 2012 at a wide range of Southern Caliifornia racetracks. Willow Springs, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway and Buttonwillow Raceway Park all are on the schedule for the upcoming season. Motoyard also offers its riders the opportunity to ride both the main 2.5-mile course at Willow and the 1.8-mile Streets of Willow on the same day, and offers the Southland’s only nighttime track time.

Lindemann Engineering is located at 1600 E. Citrus Ave., Unit H, Redlands, Ca 92374, (909) 838-4581, www.le-suspension.com. Motoyard can be reached at (800) 930-2815 or at motoyardtrackdays.com.

We re-sprung and re-valved the stock GSXR-600 shock for Randall who races with WSMC. He raced with it last month and liked it. Today at Willow Springs, I bounced on his bike it after he said it was perfect and he did not want it changed at all. I made changes to his front and rear damping and made the bike work even better. The biggest trick is helping people understand just how good there suspension can be. I have to make the changes in steps so they can get use to it. Correct suspension makes you faster with less risk and your tires last longer.

I raced Streets of Willow backwards yesterday, another new track on my list. Bumpy, tight, point & shoot. Got down to 1.23.81 on my ‘87 CBR600F-1 with a Fox Shox that Jim put a Penske high and low speed adjustable reservoir on and F-2 damper rod forks modified to Jim’s spec. I had a blast, thanks Jim!

I talked with Jim’s wife Debra today. Jim and Debra prefer a private service. Jim’s friends are spread around the world so getting together would be tough anyway.

With that in mind Debra and I propose that we all take a moment this Sunday at Noon to think of Jim. Tell a Jim story, ask your friend what rate springs he has, teach someone how to measure sag, drink a toast to Jim or whatever strikes your fancy.

I’ll be racing with WSMC and with luck will be on track at Noon putting the LE suspension on my bike to good use.

One of my best Jim stories: I pull into the pits and tell Jim I needed more front chatter and less grip on the rear, the look on his face was priceless.

First I replaced the stock non adjustable internals with cartridge assembles from another bike. Because adding compression adjusters to these forks would be near impossible I modified the cartridges to have the compression damping in the left fork and rebound damping in the right fork.

Spring rate and spring/spacer size took a bit of work but in the end, I was able to use a common spring size.

To make it all look cool we had the outer tubes, the feet and the new caps that fit inside stock cap anodized black. The compression adjuster is blue and the rebound adjuster is red.

Now Scott has the correct springs for his weight with pre-load adjusters. He also has custom valving with compression and rebound adjusters.

Forks that look good and feel good because Suspension is not, just a word.

Check out Scott’s SV, it has LE suspension work and a Penske shock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1N3VaPyKoI&feature=youtube_gdata

Bill Wickersham raced a Frischer MRX 650 V-Twin today at Willow Springs Raceway. It was a banner day for all involved as this was the first ever race of a Fischer MRX anywhere. Bill entered the California State Championship Fourmula-40 Lightweight class run in conjunction with this months regularly scheduled WSMC races. Bill’s 5^th place finish today combined with his results from the first two rounds of the CSC clinched the class championship.

The Fischer MRX is an American made Sportbike.

The California State Championship runs in conjunction with one each AFM, WERA and WSMC race in California to crown class and an overall State Championships‘.

EDventure Racing transformed the MRX from a street bike into a race bike.

This project is just getting started. Stay tuned for more results.

Bill’s Great Fischer Project is sponsored by:

EDventure Racing

Lindemann Engineering

Catalyst Racing Composites

MC Pro

Factory Pro

M-4 Exhausts

Brian sent us his ’07 Ninja 250 forks after his friend rode it and told him the front end was so bad it was dangerous.  We installed new stronger spring, thicker oil c

Got the new forks on the bike this evening after work.  Wow.  People kept telling me that it would be like a whole different bike but I wasn’t really able to conceptualize exactly how the bike would perform. 

I rode for about an hour after I got everything put back to gather to shake everything out and was nothing short of amazed.  I realize now that I had been using my biceps to soak up the energy that the forks and springs should have
been handling.

Knowing how the bike feels now as compared to how I had been riding around I agree with my friend’s assessment that it was downright dangerous.

Thanks for the hard work and if I meet any one else with the same issues I’ll send them your way.

Regards,

Brian

The “eXhausted Racers” won the M1GP 24 Hour XR 100 Class last year. This year they have a faster bike and have added me to their rider list. Lindemann Engineering has finished with the shock and has started on the forks.

We race next weekend on the Willow Kart Track. It will be my 12^th 24 Hour race. Come out and throw water on me!

The Fischer MRX is ready for testing at Willow Springs on Friday and racing this weekend.  LE fork and shock springs and valving.  EDventure Racing everything else.

Check out Birgit’s blog and her reborn CBR.  We supplied the fork springs.

www.todrinkthewildair.com

Check out Jensen’s Honda.  It has rebuilt forks with new springs.

Starting with your stock 250 Ninja shock, Lindemann Engineering will re-valve it, install a remote 2-Way reservoir with high and low speed comp damping clickers and replace the top mount to lengthen the shock 4 mm. Better damping, more swing arm angle and a travel o-ring on the shock shaft all for only $500. Visit the Edventure Racing / Lindemann Engineering pits this weekend at Streets and check out the LE Shock Mod on Tony’s Ninja.

Check out Kurt’s Super Hawk Project.  Fork springs next.

Last Friday at Buttonwillow I installed a re-valved stock R-6 shock on a 2011 R-6 and sent two different riders out to test it. They both loved it.

As you know the R-6 comes with forks and shock that are adjustable for high and low speed compression and low speed rebound. The problem is that the high speed adjuster makes almost no difference. I can fix that. With Lindemann Engineering valving the high speed adjuster works.

Why spend lots of dollars to replace your fork cartridges with after market kits that are adjustable only for low speed damping and your shock with an aftermarket shock that is also only adjustable for low speed damping? A Lindemann Engineering fork re-valve costs $560 and a shock re-valve costs $400 including springs for your weight. That’s less for both ends than the cost of a good aftermarket shock.

Testing of the Ninja shock mods went well.  The length is good and I’ll have new valving in the test shock this week.  Should be ready to do your shock next week.  $500 with everything.

I raced my ’88 CBR600F1 in Vintage Lightweight and won.  I have now won races in 4 consecutive decades!  My first win came in 1984.  Just a few more years of racing to make it 5!

At the WSMC races this weekend we will be testing this reservior that I added to a stock 250 Ninja shock.  I’m working out the valving and I added 4 mm to the length of the shock by making a new top mount.  This gives the Ninja an extra degree of swing arm angle for more traction.  The remote reservior has high and low speed comp adjusters. 

I plan to offer all this for $500.  Re-build, re-valve, remote reservior and 4mm more length.

Jim worked on dirt bikes and I ride a XR100 for fun but I’m not a dirt bike expert so I’m concentrating on what I know best, street bikes. On the road or on the track, big or small. As I get more up to speed I may start doing dirt stuff again

Check out my other gig: EDventure Racing at edsorbo.blogspot.com This is what I do on weekends.

The best way to pay is by card. I’ll tell you the total before I ship your stuff back and you can give me the number then

I’m an E mail kind of guy. If you send me an e mail when you ship your stuff I’ll let you know when I receive it and report progress

Always include a note in the box with your name and contact info, year, make and model of your bike, how much you weight without gear and what you want done.

There must be a “Fork Cap Monster,” like the “Car Radio Monster” who turns up your radio after you park because there is no way you had the radio that loud. This monster cranks down on fork caps.

You can loosen the cap after you loosen the top 3 clamp bolt. This will save me the extra work of clamping them in my press with a special holder so I can get the cap off.

Together we can put an end to “Fork Cap Monsters!”

We are moving our shipping address tonight. Please start using the new address now:

Lindemann Engineering
1600 E. Citrus Ave. Unit H
Redlands, CA 92374

The phone number and everything else remains the same.

I did not get much LE work done on Friday and this is why. Get the full story on my EDventure Racing blog. edsorbo.blogspot.com

I’m hanging out in the Tonight Show’s Green Room right now. Be sure to watch the show tonight.

Watch it, this Friday night!

The new Lindemann Engineering and EDventure Racing stickers are here.

As of June 1st our new shipping address will be:
Lindemann Engineering
1600 E. Citrus Ave. Unit H
Redlands, CA 92374

The phone number and everything else remains the same.

This just in from a customer who ordered a shock spring.

“Awesome. Thanks Ed. It was in my mailbox this morning. Great service.

Tim”

BMW front (left) & rear (right) shocks after being rebuilt and getting new, stronger springs.  You can see the air valves on the top of the rear and bottom of the front shocks.

  Now when I want to do Lindemann Engineering work I can walk over to my new Suspension Table and get to it.  No more making a mess of my welding table, no more moving things around for one job and back for another.

  I learned enought working at Jim’s shop and doing a few jobs here to give me a good idea what I wanted in a work station.  Now I’ll use it a bit and see if any improvments are needed.

  I’m not happy with the floor paint I bought, good thing I only did part of the shop.

  My new suspension table is about half way done.  It will have a metal top with a lip all the way around to prevent spills.  The vice will go on the angled part.  The back half of the lower table will be a sink that will drain into a bucket.  To the left will be the solvent tank and to the right the Flat Stone.

I’ve been working at my other work bench for now but that means I can only do one thing at a time.  Of course the floor had to have new paint to go along with the new table.

Re-springing and re-valving some GSX-R1000 forks today.

I’m at Willow Springs now for the WSMC races.  This is what EDventure Racing does.  I’m working with 4 clients, Coaching their riding and being their Crew Chief.  I also adjust their suspension.

Tim sent me his RC-30 shock for a rebuild.  He liked my work and posted about it on his RC-30 web site.  Thanks Tim!

http://rc30.yolasite.com/news.php

I won’t be working in the shop on Tuesday.  I’m at a race track now getting ready for a day of testing on Tuesday.  I’ll be back in the shop on Wednesday.  This is a Top Secret test.  That’s why I can only tell you that it’s dark here now. 

Tomorrow, when the sun comes up, it will not be dark.

As you can see we are up-dating the web site.

All the Blog posts prior to this one were pulled from my EDventure Racing blog.

The work of moving Lindemann Engineering into the EDventure Racing shop has passed the 50% point. I’m no longer moving stuff so I can find other stuff. I chose to keep LE open during the transition, this was more work for me but way better for business.

Stay tuned for more up-dates on this blog and to the web site.

These are some forks from Rich Oliver’s Mystery School. They have been taken apart and cleaned. Next they get put back together with new oil and seals. Your job is to go ride the bikes they will soon be back on.

I’ve been busy with Lindemann Engineering work as well as Edventure Racing work and setting up my shop to handle both. The shop is more than half done so I should have time for more up dates soon.

One of the cool tools that came with buying Lindemann Engineering is this flat table. Made from a large heavy piece of Granite it’s way to heavy for one person to lift. So I set the stand in place and used my Harbor Freight engine hoist AKA Mini Crane and some tie downs. Now I just need something that’s bent.

This trailer is only 16 feet long by 7 feet wide but it contains everything needed to set up the best suspension shop ever. Now it just needs to be unloaded. The tires will be much happier then.

The big Lindemann Engineering clean up and move is done. Now for the unpacking. The trailer was way over loaded and the max up hill speed was only 25 mph but I made it home last night without major problems.

I plan to be ready for LE work next Monday.

A big thank you too Rick, Liko, Bill, Debra, Dave and Jim for all their help.

Lindemann Engineering: Suspension Solutions For The Future

The best teams combine complementary qualities into a winning operation. Suspension guru Jim Lindemann is a genius, an engineer and an artist. Racer and tuner Ed Sorbo is serious, structured and methodical. Together, they create an operation that helps you become a winner.

Lindemann Engineering is under new management, as long time customer and sponsored LE racer Sorbo has partnered with Lindemann to create an operation that will take Lindemann Engineering into the future.

Sorbo first started working with Lindemann in 1998 and has been a loyal customer ever since. Lindemann, in turn, has sponsored Sorbo’s racing adventures, which have taken him to the podium of the AMA 250GP class.

“I can’t think of a better person than Ed to carry on Lindemann Engineering’s reputation for quality and service – and to keep the race wins coming!” Lindemann says.

“Everything Jim has taught me made sense,” Sorbo says. “Whenever I followed his path, my bike worked better and I went faster. Turn Six at Infineon Raceway was the clincher for me, Jim exorcised the chatter from my Yamaha YZF-R6. My understanding of the problem was incomplete. Jim could feel the problem and used his understanding to fix it.”

Lindemann has cut back on his traveling, while Sorbo’s EDventure Racing, Personal Coaching & Crew Chief work has him traveling and working with people who need Lindemann Engineering’s services.

So Sorbo has purchased Lindemann Engineering, while retaining Lindemann as a consultant and partner. In January, Sorbo will move the business into a new location in Southern California. Lindemann Engineering will operate independently of – but in conjunction with – EDventure Racing.

The Goal: To use the same understanding of suspension dynamics that have always been the hallmarks of Lindemann Engineering to produce the suspension solution you need – and outstanding customer service.

The phone number will remain the same, (408) 371-6151, as is the email, http://www.le-suspension.com/

Our new shipping address is:

Lindemann Engineering
1600 E Citrus Ave. Unit H
Redlands, CA 92374

We look forward to racing with you.

Ed Sorbo and Jim Lindemann