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    Fork maintenance

    What is a realistic maintenance schedule for forks? Should I change the oil every year? When do fork seals normally fail? My bike is 6 years old and I've never touched the forks
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    Re: Fork maintenance

    once a year really.

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Agree,

    once a year for oil in both the forks and the shock.

    Seals, when they go bad, but in the case of the shock just do it when you replace the oil.

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    In that case I need to do mine also. Is it difficult to do by yourself?

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    forks are easy, dunno about the shock
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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Quote Originally Posted by eg bter View Post
    forks are easy, dunno about the shock
    Shock is harder because you need highly compressed nitrogen to refill it with when you're done.

    See Bartman at Faster for that part of the job!

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Were can i find instructions on how to do it?

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Hey I am going to try and replace my seals this sun, never done it before but I hear its not too bad, if you wanna help me I will in return help you replace yours.

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Check out YouTube; there are some great step by step videos that explain how to do it. Ken, I say we experiment on Yueh's 748!!!

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Hey I am going to try and replace my seals this sun, never done it before but I hear its not too bad, if you wanna help me I will in return help you replace yours.
    Can't do it this weekend, thanks for the offer. Maybe we need to do a fork maintenance shop day for noobs like me

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Quote Originally Posted by Repsol a095 View Post
    Check out YouTube; there are some great step by step videos that explain how to do it. Ken, I say we experiment on Yueh's 748!!!
    Um...that is a 749 S. I didn't pay x,000s more $$$ for you to mistake a 9 for an 8, and to just gloss over the extra digit...

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    Re: Fork maintenance

    Quote Originally Posted by yueh View Post
    Um...that is a 749 S. I didn't pay x,000s more $$$ for you to mistake a 9 for an 8, and to just gloss over the extra digit...

    Sorry, It's hard to keep up with all of your high dollar equipment. I just ride old broken things like Hondas and Suzukis!!!

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