@Friday, Ohlins.......oh my, what I would have done back then to be able to afford those, lol
I can't afford that stuff either! I've done a lot of work for Ohlins USA and would trade, and I got to know everyone real well and they'd give me sugar deals on last years model or whatever.
A set of Ohlins forks on the MotoGP bikes costs between $125,000-$140,000. Just the forks. Of course that's their unobtanium stuff that you & I will never see.
Their retail stuff is still pricey though. The shock for my supermoto is $1800.
I was spoiled having an ace tuner good buddy. I would pit and tell him where it was good where it was not so good, and tell him 'fix it'.
And damned if he didn't. These guys are worth their weight in gold. But you gotta be careful, they treat suspension like we do AR15's. You buy it but you're not done. They then wanna change the spring, put this valve in, change the shim stack, and then tell you to really get the most out of it I need the Marchesini wheels. Bring your checkbook lol.
What I really struggled 'affording' was tires. Dadgum. I'd get maybe 4 hours before they'd start to let go. Of course I favored the Dunlop's which ran about $450 a set. That's another thing with suspension, what it does to tires. When my tires were gone, they still looked perfect but just no meat left. No weird heat markings or rash. Some of the guys, their tires were tore to hell and it's because their suspension sucked.
The suspension has the most profound effect of what you can do with the bike. No other mod gets these results. Give me the bone-stock motor and a top-flight suspension and let me go.