How often do you service your forks?
Poll: How often do you service your forks?
Total Members Polled: 47
Discussion
Afternoon all,
Looking through the owner's manual for the forks on my new bike (Rockshox Revelations) it says that they're supposed to be serviced every 12 months!
I suspect if I could find the manual for the Reba SLs from my old bike, it would say something similar, but given that I'm just thinking about giving them a service now after seven years of service and I've had absolutely no problems with them whatsoever, I was just wondering if anyone at all gets them serviced every year???
If I did comply with this, then across my HT and my full susser (doing the rear shock as well), I'd potentially be looking at £300 a year if I sent them back to Rockshox/Fox!!!
Looking through the owner's manual for the forks on my new bike (Rockshox Revelations) it says that they're supposed to be serviced every 12 months!
I suspect if I could find the manual for the Reba SLs from my old bike, it would say something similar, but given that I'm just thinking about giving them a service now after seven years of service and I've had absolutely no problems with them whatsoever, I was just wondering if anyone at all gets them serviced every year???
If I did comply with this, then across my HT and my full susser (doing the rear shock as well), I'd potentially be looking at £300 a year if I sent them back to Rockshox/Fox!!!
neenaw said:
They're a doddle to do yourself, you don't even need much in the way of tools for it.
You should be able to download a service manual here:
https://www.sram.com/service/rockshox/all
The first time you strip them it seems a bit daunting but after that it's easy. Rock Shox fork oil is silly expensive so you can get suspension fork oil from motorbike shops or Halfords for about 1/10th the price.
Saying that, the forks on my Epic haven't been serviced in the past three years and even though I was meaning to do it this winter I've never bothered. The same applies to the rear shock, I've never got round to sending it away.
That's my plan, once I can figure out what year they're from, so I know which bits to get for them!! You should be able to download a service manual here:
https://www.sram.com/service/rockshox/all
The first time you strip them it seems a bit daunting but after that it's easy. Rock Shox fork oil is silly expensive so you can get suspension fork oil from motorbike shops or Halfords for about 1/10th the price.
Saying that, the forks on my Epic haven't been serviced in the past three years and even though I was meaning to do it this winter I've never bothered. The same applies to the rear shock, I've never got round to sending it away.
They're roughly 2007-ish...
Herman Toothrot said:
Never serviced old Marzocchi Bombers on my old Inbred, still plush as. Fox CDT have done a year on my 456 and also feel perfect, I always clean after use. Previously I have serviced Boxxers and Marzocchis to be honest after about 3 years each the oil came out black and shining with fine swarf but once oil was changed they felt no different, so I guess out of sight out of mind. How long are you planning on keeping forks?
Pretty much indefinitely. I moved them off the old full susser onto a steel hardtail frame I bought on eBay.s4avant said:
The shock absorbers for say a BMW 5 series cost approx £150 a corner and will generally last up to 50000 miles, carrying a load of approx 450kg at speeds of up to 70mph.
Hit a pothole at this speed, with the load carried and you are talking about serious forces being generated!
Compare this to your standard mountain bike.
The cost of each of the fork legs is probably in the region of £300-£500,they carry a load of approx 75kg at at speeds of up to 25mph and yet they need serviced every 150miles or so.
What's going on here?
These bike forks are either really poorly designed, overly fragile, grossly overpriced or a combination of all three and we are being asked to service them every 6 months!
The manufacturers are having a laugh!
I suspect amongst other things, they would say...Hit a pothole at this speed, with the load carried and you are talking about serious forces being generated!
Compare this to your standard mountain bike.
The cost of each of the fork legs is probably in the region of £300-£500,they carry a load of approx 75kg at at speeds of up to 25mph and yet they need serviced every 150miles or so.
What's going on here?
These bike forks are either really poorly designed, overly fragile, grossly overpriced or a combination of all three and we are being asked to service them every 6 months!
The manufacturers are having a laugh!
1. Weight savings are relatively far more important on a bike powered by a 1/2 horsepower human than a 150 horsepower petrol engine.
2. The fact that there is so much more weight in the car can actually be a benefit when it comes to things like overcoming friction, so you can have a much rougher ride from the car shock absorber than you can from the MTB fork without noticing.
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