[Tootrikky]

The issue here is simple. I worked at a shop and broke my lowers, lower crown and upper crown, and comp base valve. I bought new parts through QBP at WHOLESALE and still would of been better off $ wise, just replacing the whole fork. Normal shop mark up would of put the price for these parts at $600 on average. I personally would rather see companies offer crash replacement parts at slightly above cost then offer 1 year limited warranties or offer this for frames verses such and such frame waranty, cause racing, freeriding, or even just plain trail riding is abusive and stuff is gonna break.

 

[binary visions]

I personally would rather see companies offer crash replacement parts at slightly above cost then offer 1 year limited warranties or offer this for frames verses such and such frame waranty, cause racing, freeriding, or even just plain trail riding is abusive and stuff is gonna break.

Crash replacements on components would do one of two things:

A) Jack up the cost of the items so much that it would be difficult to afford them, or

B) Cause the companies to go out of business.

As you said, riding is abusive and stuff is gonna break. That's why it's an expensive hobby. If you take your truck into the woods every day, it's abusive and stuff is gonna break - would you really expect Toyota to offer a "crash replacement" on your rear axle when you bounce it off a large rock?

It blows my mind how much people complain about the price of things and how such-and-such a company won't warrenty my abused part and oh my god I have to buy something else, when the bike industry in general does so poorly at making money. These companies aren't getting super rich. When you break stuff, suck it up and pay for it. You are abusing a product you bought - anything that happens to it is your own damn fault.

It'd be one thing if he opened the box and found the lowers cracked, but if you break something, too bad. Cry me a river. If you can't afford to replace something if it breaks, consider buying the next model down - 'cause it WILL break if you ride it hard.

 

[Tootrikky]

Binary Visions

Turn off your auto response and think about my post...... or don't post

I contend (as you failed to notice) that warranties jack up the cost, and futhermore that replacing lowers and a lower crown should not cost you %80 of what it costs to buy a brand new fork

 

[ibismojo]

You clearly are predisposed to hating Boxxers. Of course, you own the cheapest model they make and bought it on a value-priced bike, but let's not get into that.

and i suppose i'm not allowed to hate/complain until i've spent $5k like everyone else in this damn sport? it's not like i'm talking **** about a dorado here, or a slider, or any other fork i've never owned. i've bent the crown on my fox vanilla and i got a whole new set of uppers for $20 bucks. granted that may be a fox but cheap replacements can be had. you know what happened after that? i bent it again. do i hate the fox as much as i despise the boxxer? no. at least the fox rode like a champ from the minute i took it out of the box, from the time i blew my seals, and even when the crown was bent. simply put, it worked. how exactly am i suppose to feel about a fork that locks up halfway through the travel with rebound adjustments that's simply their for looks and that cracks after one hit? maybe after two hits in the same spot, i'd understand. but after one, when i was going as fast as i could have been running down the hill? that's just a little too weak for me. it's just not the cracked lower that's pissed me off about the boxxer, it's everything. i had my reserves about this fork, but i gave it a shot, cause i like to try different forks. the oil change even gave me hope that it might be alright. now i'm down a fork looking to spend more money on possibly a used fork, cause anything else would be too expensive at this point.

 

[CBJ]

That is all good but then just let us know if you want to went you anger or if you want some good advice. If you read RM you will know that the Boxxer Race is not the best fork and that there are forks out there like the Shiver that will give you fewer problems.

 

[Transcend]

Well I for one would like to call BS on the vanilla uppers for $20. I worked for fox, that upper assembly is about $150 wholesale. You did not get them for $20 from FOX, or any other retailer.

Your fork doesn't "ride like a champ" because it is a budget model. The Race is an absolute piece of junk. There was no oil in one leg, because it is a DUMMY ROD. There is really no damper there, so the lack of oil isn't exactly a big concern.

Stop crashing and breaking things,and you won't have to complain. I put the biggest ding ever in my old set of boxxer lowers. HUGE, it didnt slip, didnt break, didn't leak, and I happen to have been hauling ass at the time.

Sorry your JRA story doesn't jive.

 

[Jm_]

I love you guys. :love:

 

[ibismojo]

Well I for one would like to call BS on the vanilla uppers for $20. I worked for fox, that upper assembly is about $150 wholesale. You did not get them for $20 from FOX, or any other retailer.

Sorry your JRA story doesn't jive.

i did get the uppers for $20, and it was someone from ridemonkey, forgot who it was. and it's not $150 wholesale, unless if it's wholesale as in Fox sells it to someone who calls them up and asks for uppers cause that's what Fox said it would cost me to get new uppers.

and your right, i wasn't just riding along cause i wasn't riding my bike when the fork blew apart. i let my friend ride it down to see what the difference was between the iron horse and the eliminator. last time i give a **** whether or not someone wants to get into this sport.

anyways, 299 for new uppers and 149 for one new stanchion equals some other fork that will probably get blown to bits in the same fashion.