I have not dealt with them yet but the Canadian store is located near where I live. They have a very good reputation among the community!Thanks for your interest in Hagon suspension for your motorcycle. No reason to have anything shipped to you from England when we have air freight shipments arriving in Nova Scotia all the time from the Hagon factory. . Normally I would invite you to visit us in Wolfville, but our parts pickup counter is closed due to the virus situation, and in any case, our prices include shipping to us from UK, post to your door from our warehouse, and all taxes.
I would like to confirm a TOTAL price to your door of CAN$672.75 for the Hagon M61105 Monoshock for your 1990 GL1500 SE Honda Gold Wing sidecar rig, and would check when I placed the order order to see if Hagon recommended going with a stiffer spring rate due to the sidecar. It would be helpful to get an idea of your weight and estimated load and percentage of time loaded, if possible.
If the factory feels it might be better for you to buy a pair of shocks instead, I will let you know, but as your compressor is working, I think you are best sticking to the original configuration. Pricing for twin shocks is as follows, though:
Standard Road Shocks with 3 position spring preload adjustment, black body/chrome or black spring ( stainless body available at additional cost) $343.85 pr. TOTAL
2810 series, also has 10 position damping adjustment $557.75 PR. total, ditto on stainless body
NITRO series, all stainless and alloy, factory rebuildable, has same damping adjustment as 2810 but infinite spring preload adjustments, $936.10 pr. TOTAL
All Hagon shocks come with a 2 year unlimited mileage warranty, and a spring adjustment tool.
Mark Appleton
British Cycle Supply Company
Established 1977
Warehouses in Canada and the USA.
I rebuilt my air shock recently, but I'm currently in the same position as you. I'd really like to replace my coil shock, as it still feels terrible with a passenger on the rear.
As near as I can tell all the 416‘s on eBay are Harley Davidson specific. They won’t work on a GL 1500. The 416‘s that are(were) made for a Goldwing are 1633‘s.
How did you take it apart? I can't see how except grinding a "cut" in the outer skin that would need to be welded back. How did you get the oil seal out?oakback wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:12 pmI rebuilt my air shock recently, but I'm currently in the same position as you. I'd really like to replace my coil shock, as it still feels terrible with a passenger on the rear.
I replaced the oil seal and used the backup ring and stopper ring. The backup ring is solid metal, it doesn't look like a swear item. The stopper ring is, from what I can tell, some kind of very stiff spring steel. I'm no metallurgist, so take that with a grain of salt. But it doesn't look like a wear item either. It was very difficult to remove the stopper ring. I felt very confident in reusing both of these items.
I also took apart the compressor and cleaned out the crumbly foam filter stuff, and cleaned up and oiled the tiny compressor. I also had a local tube-and-hose shop rebuild new air hoses for me with modern banjo fittings (he's open to doing mail orders if anyone needs it).
It seems to work fine, except that my PSI won't get very high, according to the LCD screen anyway. But I can definitely adjust the pressure, and use the "output" air (albeit at a incredibly slow rate of inflation, borderline useless compared to cheap 12v inflater you can get anywhere). The lower air shock bushing does not exist as an off-the-shelf item you can buy. I improvised (read where someone else did this) and pressed a PVC pipe segment in its place. Seems to work fine I guess?
Anyways, I'm curious to see what you end up getting for the spring shock. I'm going to be riding to Daytona Biketoberfest with my wife and luggage, and it would be great to not worry about bottoming out on hard bumps.
