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18-12-2019, 06:59 PM
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Pleasantly surprised!
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Stoke on Trent
Bike: M900ie
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An average price of a good rear shock is £450, an Ohlins front fork spring £40 to £100, so with fitting that might be an interesting deal.
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18-12-2019, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Norwich
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600 Euros is about 500 of your English quids.
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18-12-2019, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Shipbourne
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"600 Euros is about 500 of your English quids."
Somewhat less since last Thursday - or is that too political for this forum? Last edited by 350TSS; 18-12-2019 at 08:11 PM.. Reason: punctuation |
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18-12-2019, 08:13 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Sutton In Ashfield
Bike: Multiple Monsters
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The Hyperpro fotk kit. Is it progressive springs. They didnt work too well in my fotks and difficult to tune because they're not linear. The valving in most forks is designed for a linear spring so adjustment can be a bit hit n miss.
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18-12-2019, 08:23 PM
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18-12-2019, 09:25 PM
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Includes VAT but no fitting. It seems to me with the forks that you either spend big or don't bother lol
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18-12-2019, 10:31 PM
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19-12-2019, 12:54 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Beachtown
Bike: M900
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The main reason forks cost so much to improve is because generally speaking they're so rubbish to begin with. But even if you haven’t changed your fork oil for a couple of years or more you’ll probably notice some improvement just by doing that. But honestly, once they’ve been sorted properly you’ll wish (as I did) you’d done it years ago. By the way, fork oil is really smelly when it’s old- why is that?
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19-12-2019, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Shipbourne
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"By the way, fork oil is really smelly when it’s old- why is that?"
I thought this an interesting question - and I could not find an answer but I did come across this which I thought was quite interesting and worth sharing. http://www.mototribology.com/article...ension-fluids/ |
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19-12-2019, 01:50 PM
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16-01-2020, 01:27 PM
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Just for info (haven't read whole thread) I have some early 916 fork legs for my never started build which I have had anodised black and re-valved by Maxton who also supplied a new remote reservoir rear shock with total bill being £1300 inc vat. The other "mod" was boring the yoke and sourcing the correct diameter spindle for the forks.
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