Subject: RE: Fork Springs?
Author: Fred Sahms
Date: Apr 15, 2002, 7:01 AM
Post ID: 1710064212
Welcome to the world of external spring forks!
Keith Ruff wrote:
| In the meantime, I have a question about the forks. When I changed the fork oil about 2 weeks ago, I was baffled that there was no fork springs in the upper halves of the fork tubes. In all of my previous bikes that I have owned, I always took great caution pulling off those top caps in fear that the load of the springs would shoot that cap nut into my forehead, as it did a friend of mine whom was knocked out cold! I looked into the forks and saw that way down in there on the bottom 30% of the forks there was a hole for the fork oil to enter and figured that's where all the guts of the forks must be. Still found it strange not to have springs in the upper halves of the fork tubes. I just went over to loopframe.com to check out the parts pics breakdown of the forks and did indeed see a fork spring! So what's up, am I supposed to have fork springs or not? If yes, what would y'all recommend? I use to use Progressive fork springs in all of my BMW's. |
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