If you sell shocks, you can sell twice as many and double your profits. Does this make sense?
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If you need that much damping you need that much damping! Think extreme high speed stuff...
Of course there's no reason you couldn't have one gigantic shock accomplish that same thing, just like there's no reason you couldn't have 2500 ridiculously small shocks provide the damping of a stock FJ...
Think of it as 'why don't we have 30, 40, 75, or 150 dollar bills?' The effect of shocks is additive, linear...
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In the old days when all you had was monotube you would run dual shocks to keep them cool. 2 shocks mean each shock is doing half the work and getting 1/2 as hot as it would with out the other there. You can see this in the old school desert race trucks and buggy's some of the trucks would have 4 shock on each corner. Now a days you don't need to do that since we have external reservoir shocks that will stay cool / cooler way longer then a monotube. Keeping shocks cool is all about oil volume and with a ext. res. shock you can get twice the amount of oil or more then with out it. So today in the desert all you have is dual shocks but one is more to hold the spring in place and the other is there doing most if not all of the dampening to that corner. Plus now we have monster shocks that are 4"+ and that right there is over twice the size of an old billy.
old school billy New school Billy Black hawk (4.5" dia.)
What one do you want?
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In the old days when all you had was monotube you would run dual shocks to keep them cool. 2 shocks mean each shock is doing half the work and getting 1/2 as hot as it would with out the other there. You can see this in the old school desert race trucks and buggy's some of the trucks would have 4 shock on each corner. Now a days you don't need to do that since we have external reservoir shocks that will stay cool / cooler way longer then a monotube. Keeping shocks cool is all about oil volume and with a ext. res. shock you can get twice the amount of oil or more then with out it. So today in the desert all you have is dual shocks but one is more to hold the spring in place and the other is there doing most if not all of the dampening to that corner. Plus now we have monster shocks that are 4"+ and that right there is over twice the size of an old billy.
old school billy New school Billy Black hawk (4.5" dia.)
What one do you want?
Wow a straight up answer with explanation. thanks Josh, I always wondered about this too. Now I can roll up to that sky high lifted "sunburt" neck truck and ask him if he could spare a set of those kings he's obviously not using. lol
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Wow a straight up answer with explanation. thanks Josh, I always wondered about this too. Now I can roll up to that sky high lifted "sunburt" neck truck and ask him if he could spare a set of those kings he's obviously not using. lol
Mike your in SoCal (SD for that) there called Bro's or flatbillers here. But ya they don't need them, all for looks on those 12" lifted trucks. They all runs Fox's not Kings though, one of the reason I don't run Fox's.
Glad it help though.
__________________ "Because in the end it has almost nothing to do with the bike and everything to do with setting
out to accomplish something that is intimidating, that is unknown to you, something you know you
have a good chance of failing at but doing it anyways and slowly but surely proving yourself wrong." Mike Ambs
www.corva.org "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
Mike your in SoCal (SD for that) there called Bro's or flatbillers here. But ya they don't need them, all for looks on those 12" lifted trucks. They all runs Fox's not Kings though, one of the reason I don't run Fox's.
Glad it help though.
I resent that comment about Fox shocks! Are you calling me a poser!? That explains a lot!
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But ya they don't need them, all for looks on those 12" lifted trucks. They all runs Fox's not Kings though, one of the reason I don't run Fox's. 
Are you calling me a poser!? That explains a lot! 
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