Springs

[coachtech]

Who is a vendor for fork and shock springs on a bike with zoke and ohlins?

cheers
jz

[AZRickD]

Excellent question. Along with spring recommendations (drift).

[tnttimber]

If you want recommendations you should include your weight, height, type of riding and ability.

Nate

[AZRickD]

Understood. I was talking more generic info, such as first ride impressions (under sprung, unbalanced).

As for me, 200#, Slo-B. Tight Arizona single track. Rocks, Rocks, Rocks.

I'm guessing .46 in the front, but I've not heard enough comments on how the 48mm Zokes respond to that *recommendation*.

[coachtech]

I feel the fork springs on my 45 zokes are light for me at 190lbs along with horrid valving for anything other than slow speed rock crawling. The rear is closer but still on the light side. All I do is trail ride and do all my own mechanical work, first step I see is springs then valving.

I have made my ktm work well and can probably make these work fine also, although the rebound on the zokes is pathetically weak and will require some shim shuffling.

cheers
jz

[AZRickD]

Les at LTR used 10wt fork oil in my '05 45mm Zokes to combat the weak rebound.

[coachtech]

Of course, with all the fork swap threads, I could just swap in the extra 48mm WP forks I have around, including wheel, brembo master and caliper, axle etc....hmmmmm....

Just thinking out loud....who can bore out the lower triple clamp to accept the WP's????
or sell me a lower clamp for 48mm forks???

cheers
jz

[thumperrider1]

Another guy on this board swapped out some WP 48mm forks on his 2011. If you search around on the board it's in here somewhere.

[Jakobi]

Originally Posted by thumperrider1

Another guy on this board swapped out some WP 48mm forks on his 2011. If you search around on the board it's in here somewhere.

Here it is: http://www.gasgasrider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=12252

[coachtech]

Yeah I found it also, thanks Jakobi. How about the original question about spring vendors? Not sure about doing a conversion needing to spend $400 for a lower clamp. I am trying to get the best bang for buck possible. This bike is going to be ridden mostly by my wife now that I put 100+hrs on it and rebuilt it.

The low seat height and forgiving nature(oh yeah, and e-start) make it great for her, though it has "too much power"....lol. My time on it indicated some suspension work would make it really kick-a$$, even though I just rode the crap out of it, grinning like a fool the whole time.

cheers
jz