What are the advantages of single tube design?
The advantages are: a) Better heat dissipation, which means better performance. A shock is an “energy converter.” “Spring energy” has to be converted into “thermal energy” and the resulting heat has to be dissipated as fast as possible. A shock absorber’s effectiveness is directly proportional to its ability to dissipate heat, since a “hot” shock quickly loses its damping ability. In conventional Multi-tube shocks the heat must pass through two tubes. The BILSTEIN mono-tube design results in a cooler running, more efficient shock. A BILSTEIN shock can perform at peak operation between sub-zero weather to 480F.
