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After sending my lyriks off to tftuned a few weeks back and them finding a scratch on the damper they recommended me to covert them to coil saying id have one of the best forks around.
I told them id think on it as im unsure on the extra weight with going coil. Is coil better than air forks ive only ever ridden air forks before.
The lyriks i run are the RC2DH version but they seem to lose travel dont extend fully and knock on top out which is why i sent them off + they've not been serviced in about 2 years.
I weigh a shade under 11st will the soft spring be suitable for my weight?
Am i best to convert them to coil or go with a new damper and stick with an air fork??
Coil lyriks are just brilliant forks. If they are suggesting you go coil because you have a scratch somewhere, and they lose travel/don't extend fully then they must mean a scratch somewhere inside the air spring (not the damper) which will be leaking air and very expensive to put right. Unless you go coil! Also your RC2dh version iirc does away with the wierd platformy blow off thing that many fork tinkerers removed from their mission control dampers so is much more supple on little bumps/ripples. And is also a great damper.
TF are no exaggerating, go coil! (and ask them their advice for what weight spring, as rs spring weights are well wierd: I found the medium spring on the original coil lyric rather firmer than the firm one on my old pike!)