Snap from Vital's Sea Otter Crazy & Cool vid:
There could be all sorts of things under that left hand side top cap.
New Whip? New toys for the dependable steed?
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There could be all sorts of things under that left hand side top cap.
wake me up if they ever offer something as easy to change as the cts tunes from formula. need to send in the fork to change something? keep your POS
do you own a selva?
yes, i can change my tune, trail side, in 2 minutes…
your friends must love you
"sorry guys i gotta change my suspension tune before we keep going"
I just dent the stanchion near top and it gives me bottom out resistance . Takes 10 seconds and tool is a rock...
Sorry for the delay!
You laugh eh! But I went to this guy's place called Sickline Suspension and the dude litterally did that to my stanchions when I told him I wanted more bottom-out resistance!!! What a fucking freak!
Did you get the dual dent special or cheap out and only 1 side dent damper? I can't remember
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Lmao I actually had a guy come in with a bottom out issue and a bind like feeling...he creased the whole back side of a stanchion...nice and clean no raw metal just distortion....man the crap i see these surrons doing to forks and shocks external and internal is nasty....did a shock for Josh hill and his rear was DESTROYED internally..had another guy broken lowers, bend CSU etc..m
Yeah in a huge way got buddies gapping 50 foot and running them more like MX ..Had 1 guy bring me 4 dorados all screwed up..stanchions were bent in middle over 1/4 ...had to clamp on vice and hammer ends out with a shaft in foot nut...heated off all the parts I could strip and trashed whole exterior..
Drew and Eli have these 15k motors and allblah blah stuff (don't know what it all is) but the bikes rip extended swing arms and running around $14k+ builds...
Slapped galfer 203mm 2mm rotors and green pads on the evil...
I LOVE THIS BIKE!!!! Man this thing is fun to rip on it hammers corners and whip it around...hard to believe it's 120mm rear (modding that to 139).
Hit some ruts and rocks on it today and just aimed at all the shit in the way, bump jumped stuff up and over landing in more rocks...
What a KICKASS bike ..
There, had to vent that..
I LOVE THIS BIKE!!!! Man this thing is fun to rip on it hammers corners and whip it around...hard to believe it's 120mm rear (modding that to 139).
Hit some ruts and rocks on it today and just aimed at all the shit in the way, bump jumped stuff up and over landing in more rocks...
What a KICKASS bike ..
There, had to vent that..
I looked that company up a year or so back to see if they were still around, and the German mob that did stupid light forks, both gone. Loads of people seem to want something weird these days even if it doesn't work well, wonder what happened?I got an inverted coil fork with open bath cartridge from a former obscure french company: a Fore from CR conception.
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It sits on my trail bike.
And I got it before push revealed its own. I am not trying to be trendy in other words
It was a bit of a gamble to buy a fork from a former company knowing that I could not get any spare parts and now, after the first ride, I have to face that the spring rate is too soft
the rest of the fork feels good so far and I would like to find a stiffer spring for it even if it means cutting a spring from another brand.
Have you seen info about dimensions of coil springs for forks somewhere? I am mostly interested in the outer diameter. My google-fu didn't work today...
My fork has a coil with 25mm outer diameter which is probably on the small side compare to available coils for single crown forks like öhlins, formula, cane creek, etc...
I have done a couple of chopped springs, I heated the spring with a MAPP gas torch then used Vise grips to flatten the winding and ground it flat.
Worked fine in my Vengeance and Totem.
Yes, I wonder too what happened to CRconception. The company disappeared, Facebook page was erased and the same for their YouTube...
Thanks for the advice about using a gas torch to flatten the windings!
I had som fun in my shed this weekend modifying a Boxxer u-turn coil. Definitely better support than with the previous coil.
I used some modified plastic part to give support to the non-flat end of the coil. Sorry no pictures...
New fork lowered to 100mm, boost kit fitted and then all installed on the front of old faithful. Ready for an upcoming trip.
That's cool, got a buddy who's doing camping on his now...might build one to go camping and disappear once in a while...wife and I geared up and we're training for a portion of PCT in NW...Did all sorts of training, loved it...might pitch her on this...
I bought the frame for racing the Tour Divide in 2011. The only parts left from the original bike build are the frame, seatpost and stem. It's normally running rigid and gets taken on plenty of singletrack like that. But I swap to a squish fork when I know the upcoming terrain on a trip needs it. Just sold the original Hope Pro 2 on Arch wheelset earlier this year when I picked up a new set of DT Swiss 240 wheels stupid cheap. I sold the 2009 Reba XX at the same time as it didn't have space for a 2.35" tyre and front mudguard, picked up the SID as a new take off, I have the same fork on my XC race bike.
I wonder how many other people are running a 135 QR dropout bike with 135x10mm thru bolt axle out back and a boost front fork up front?
Fork is finally back together and on the bike.
New bushings installed and sized/burnished by S4.
Smashpot travel change to 160mm
Torque caps on the front hub.
Smashpot takes 110ml and the Avalanche cartridge takes about 290ml of fluid.
Fork clocks in at 6.0lbs / 2.72kg
Bike with the new Exo+ MG Assegai and MT Dissector - ready to ride is 36.41lb
New bushings installed and sized/burnished by S4.
Smashpot travel change to 160mm
Torque caps on the front hub.
Smashpot takes 110ml and the Avalanche cartridge takes about 290ml of fluid.
Fork clocks in at 6.0lbs / 2.72kg
Bike with the new Exo+ MG Assegai and MT Dissector - ready to ride is 36.41lb
This is gonna be smooze 
formula selva c 2,3kg for the price of an avy cartridge + smashpot…
(+ there is a 20mm axle option)
(+ there is a 20mm axle option)
For this season's cockpit puzzling, I ordered some Renthal Fatbar Lites and a fresh set of ODI Elite Pros. I know I like the ODIs, but was trying out Ergon GE1 Slims the last several months. I've found my hands slipping too much lately, so want to go back to the ODI's half waffle underside. I've never run Renthals, but want to try them for the 7* backsweep. I went with the Lite because they come in 760, my preferred width. I would think that their bars designed for 760 width are more compliant than their 800 bars cut down to 760, but that might be giving the lizards too much credit.
You rebel
Enjoy being stuck on the ground now!
Those ~$20 rings are the way to go when it's time to replace an original chainring.
Figured it’s worth a try. See if the chain retention is any better being an X Sync…
IMO, yes. They also last much longer, and hold up to the now and then rock/log hit much better.
So nice looking! Which frame is that. Full report after some riding please.I accidentally a bright green thing
my buddy josh has had both the squeeb v1 and v2 as his primary rig (he rides almost exclusively at wilsons) since winning the first one in the pisgah conservancy raffle a while back. he loves 'em.
Oh no, I have stocks of good bearings for said RF BBYou get XO stuff and then use that horrible raceface bottom bracket, sheesh.
