Damping rod forks are notorious for being mushy, too easy to bottom and too harsh all at once. This is the nature of all damping rod forks. Until now, all you could do is change spring rate, oil viscosity and damping hole size. The best available was only a compromise. The Gold Valve Cartridge Emulator is one of the industry leading inventions from Race Tech’s Paul Thede. Simply put; Emulators make damping rod forks perform like well-tuned cartridge forks. Emulators are tunable valves that sit on top of the damping rods and are held in place with the main springs. This makes them both simple to install and completely tunable for all conditions, types of riding and rider preferences. The little Kawasaki KLX 110 forks do not have compression adjustability and with the Emulator installed you can tune compression internally for state-of-the-art damping control.