Most brand name offroad bikes featured sophisticated shock absorbers which are designed to be unscrewed and repaired rather than completely junked. It saves a lot of money and waste, and so long as you change the oil and nitrogen fairly regularly they can last for decades only replacing seals and wear parts. However, more basic bikes can feature cheap tricks like peening over tubes or crimped ends, which are quick and easy to manufacture but terrible for rebuilding. As a very quick rule of thumb, most shocks with a schrader (tyre) gas valve somewhere on them are likely to be rebuildable since they have that valve built in for regassing. Up the top of this website is a bar that says: FIND YOUR BIKE Put the Make, Model and Year of your motorcycle into the dropdowns. Then click the GO button. Scroll down, and there should be a box titled Shocks Info . These sections are full of useful info about your OEM suspension, including whether or not the shock absorber was designed to be serviced from the factory. If it says Non-rebuildable: No , then your shock can easily be taken apart, repaired, refilled with oil and regassed with nitrogen. Good as new. If it says Non-rebuildable: Yes , things are more difficult, but not impossible. The vast majority of those cheap shocks can in fact be machined out and made to use rebuildable parts including welding in a schrader valve port, and that means that your mechanic can then service that same shock easily in the future. It is more complex, and therefore costs more than a basic service for a rebuildable shock, but it can still work out much cheaper than throwing in a complete replacement shock. See the Shock Servicing & Tuning section of our Workshop Services page for more details on how much we charge for each type of service, or contact us for advice on whether or not you should get your stock shock modified for servicing or whether it works out easier to try one of our adjustable aftermarket shocks. Unfortunately, if your motorbike doesn't yet have the Shocks Info box showing, then it is one of the thousands of bikes we don't have enough accurate info about yet and so haven't added to our database. Sorry! We can still possibly find out for you whether your shock is rebuildable, but you will need to give us a call.