Changing fork springs in general...............
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 5:59 am
I'm not much into MTB and I've just got this Avanti Ridge Rider to mess about on, but the forks are just awful. They are RST Omega SLs with (supposedly) 100mm travel and a lock-out on the RHS leg. OK, the bike is not top end quality, but do the forks have to be this bad ?
Essentially the spring (I think there is a spring in one side only) feels too heavy. The pre-load adjuster doesn't seem to make any difference, so I took off the top cap to see what the problem is and, lo and behold, the reason the adjuster doesn't make any difference is because it doesn't do anything ! Nothin' ! It's just there for show ! You wind it around and nothing changes inside because there's nothing to change-at least that's the way it looks to me. Pathetic.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of a source of alternative springs. Is there any degree of interchangability ? I guess the option is just to get a decent set of forks, but it seems a shame to toss these ones out if the spring could just be changed to make them more effective.
Any ideas ?
Cheers,
Nitram
Essentially the spring (I think there is a spring in one side only) feels too heavy. The pre-load adjuster doesn't seem to make any difference, so I took off the top cap to see what the problem is and, lo and behold, the reason the adjuster doesn't make any difference is because it doesn't do anything ! Nothin' ! It's just there for show ! You wind it around and nothing changes inside because there's nothing to change-at least that's the way it looks to me. Pathetic.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of a source of alternative springs. Is there any degree of interchangability ? I guess the option is just to get a decent set of forks, but it seems a shame to toss these ones out if the spring could just be changed to make them more effective.
Any ideas ?
Cheers,
Nitram