Visit to Öhlins USA

[Grumpy Goat]

While on the 2019 Ride In to Helen GA, a few of us went on a ride to Hendersonville NC to visit Öhlins USA (and Wunderlich USA), which Darrell had managed to arrange - thanks Darrell!

BTW - Öhlins is properly pronounced something like "EUH-lins" ... due to the "Ö".

Matt at Öhlins gave us a very interesting talk on the Company and their products before taking us on a tour of the lab and facilities in Hendersonville. We did not tour the adjacent warehouse which supplies all of the Americas.

With regard to Öhlins and BMW, Matt noted that they do not supply factory-installed suspension on the current models due to the electronics integration (or lack thereof) since they prefer to keep their own suspension system components for consistency of quality and performance. That said, their website does show for the 2016 RS:

• FGK 236 Street NIX 30 Cartridge Kit
  
• BM 511 Street S46 Shock
  
• SD 051 Street Steering Damper
  

These are all non-electronic installations.

Any one of the others on that trip can of course chime in with details I did not mention.