You’ve probably seen different fork and rear shocks in our store, and noticed the gold ones with the ‘Kashima Coat’ branding on it. These forks and shocks carry a higher price and clients often ask why they’re priced higher as well as enquiring about the benefits of this gold coating.

Traditionally, hard anodic film is porous with a low to moderate wear resistance which means there is a higher chance of abrasion and wear, caused by failure of lubrication in higher pressure, vibration and friction areas.

Kashima Coat was researched and developed by Miyaki Co. to offer superior lubricating properties and a higher resistance to prevent the problems associated with tradirional hard anodic film.

Kashima Coat is a proprietary hard anodizing process process invented by the Miyaki Company og Japan. Lubricating molybdenum disulfide is deposited via electrical induction into the billions of micro-pores on the surface of hard-anodized aluminium for better lubrication and less abrasion and wear.

There are approximately 70 billion anodic cells per square centimetre, with molybdenum disulfide deposited into the micro-pores from the bottom of each cell

Kashima Coat improves on lubrication and corrosion resistance vs conventional hard anodizing and other common types of coating such as Teflon, Graphite, and Tungsten disulfide.