its not april 1stAnd today on pinkbike.com I saw that you can even take out the oil seals...
That is one of the dumbest bike mods I have ever heard of.
Its not like the oil seals actually hold any real amount of anything inside the fork, and the wipers do a good job of keeping **** out...
You cut out one lip out of the two that are there, and if you're smart you cut out the upper lip which does SFA anyway since it isn't pressure-sensitive like the lower one. Besides that, as Muttely said, there's SFA in there, and those oil seals have about as much effect as politely asking your oil to remain inside your fork anyway.
Dude, learn the knobs, than learn to love themi think the best mood for the boxxer wc is to take out the over compicated rebound and put in the rebound of a race, it has a smaller shaft so it dispalces les oil so it is smoother, also if you have a team take the whole botom out shut out and put in a havier spring that and smothing out your bushrings makes it almost a good fork
WC has had some issues for some people but I still like my fork.
You need chapstick.
I was taking mine apart for a regular cleaning and rebuild and found this........which of course I removed.
well my guess would be because its a different company. just a shot in the dark.
I race for Marz and my team tech cut the inner lip (oil seal?) out of my seals and threw out the foam rings to reduce friction. He knows that I change my oil often enough and said that the stock setup is designed to maximize maintenance intervals for the worst case customers.
Considering how smooth 888's supposedly are, wouldn't that be as redundant as lubing oil?
damn, how much smoother can it be?
Funny you say that because we also add teflon to the oil. It makes the fork very smooth and there's nothing I'd rather ride than my Works 888 Evo Ti ATA.
LOL, its true.... BTW I can have that out of the bike, apart, reshimmed and installed with oil in under 15 minutes now....You can take everything out of the right leg........
I'm suprised Bullcrew didn't do this yet?
Hey thats my take on things....
It's valved quite lightly from factory but very easy to revalve once you work out how to remove the piston.
Hey Udi, do you not like 2 stage stacks in rear shocks too? Do you not like them for ease of tuning reasons? I find I can get my bike set up for 1-3 big hits in a row with a single stage stack but if it stays rough for an additional 5-6 big impacts I start having issues. I think the 2 stage stacks are excellent if they are set up well. The suspension becomes much smarter and can deal with more situations with more composure, in my opinion. However, I don't do any of the tuning myself. Props for tuning it yourself.
They're a bit messy if you have a HS preload collar like the Boxxer has, because the HS adjuster then starts to have a very distinct influence on, and greater overlap with, the LS damping. I certainly don't write them off entirely but lacking a dyno to actually test stuff properly, I find they just introduce too many variables to tune properly when you're doing it trial and error.Hey Udi, do you not like 2 stage stacks in rear shocks too? Do you not like them for ease of tuning reasons? I find I can get my bike set up for 1-3 big hits in a row with a single stage stack but if it stays rough for an additional 5-6 big impacts I start having issues. I think the 2 stage stacks are excellent if they are set up well. The suspension becomes much smarter and can deal with more situations with more composure, in my opinion. However, I don't do any of the tuning myself. Props for tuning it yourself.
If you have a chance to measure the 2011 HS stack, it would be great to see what it's like. Also if anyone has measured the Avalanche modded HS stack that info would be great to have as well.
