Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:13pm PDT

How It's Made: With Ride Engineering

By: scott hoffman

How do trick parts you often see featured on factory or factory support race teams get made? Testing and product development, just like manufactures such as Yamaha or Honda. Just last week Ryan Sipes put his DNA Shred Stix Yamaha YZ250F into the winner circle. Many of the parts on his bike are available to the public. Ride Engineering provides triple clamps, steering stabilizers, rear shock links and several other small parts for the team's race bikes, and these are the same parts that are sold to the public.

We recently hooked up with Ride Engineering while they were developing products for the 2011 KTM 350 SX-F to find out what goes into starting with nothing and ending up with a billet product ready to ship to a customer. This is a two-part video series that goes into product development.

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