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I'm reluctantly (£££ are tight) looking at a new fork and see I can get some NOS Lyrics in 15x100 for £370 (MY not yet known).
I'd like to eventually put in a Charger 2.1 and latest Deb air spring.
I currently have 2x Pikes @160 and a 36 all in 100mm and one of the Pikes has a scratched air chamber according to TFT.
I need to keep at least one working set light enough for the 35kg sprog and I think a Pike is as heavy as he can go being realistic. (he's riding a long bike for his height) but then putting them together I will have a non boost Pike and lots and lots of spares. Buying lowers alone new doesn't seem economic.
We both have one set of front wheels that can be easily switched to/from boost on DT350's so perhaps I should wait and just try and find some boost forks and get dragged (kicking and screaming into the 2020's)
So ML 2017 RCT lyrics as NOS £270
Or
used 2017, 36, A, FLOAT, 27.5in, P-S, 160, 3Pos, Grip (Oe)
At a similar price?
You can get the biggest improvement just by upgrading to the Debonair airshaft IME.
The damper does get better with the 2.1 as well, but it's certainly not something you'd need to do straight away.
So for £270 NOS I'd bite their arm off. The air shaft is only £40ish extra.
Cheers Cha****ng,
I’d prefer 35mm just because I’ve got loads of foam rings, seals and 8mm crush washers and I only weigh 75kg wet through.
I’d thought the 2017 would be charger (1) ? but either way can go to 2.1 should I upgrade. If it’s a charger 2 rather than 2.1 I might go 170 stuff some tokens in and let it sit a bit lower plus I have a 35mm luftkappa id swap off the kiddies forks and give him the deb which sits a bit higher at his pressures.
Does seem pretty good price and I can use an eBay discount code...
coil for the scratched air chamber pike?
custom tune for the lad on the other pike
why do you need new forks?
POAH
I don’t really need new .. but smashpot is about to he same as the fork and the pike is limited to 160 and I need my skills compensator.
I was thinking of it but TBH I also thought I’d get a coil shock before forks. I’m not sure Ollies DB air is economically repairable so he’d have to use mine and me get a coil 😉 as I explained to him he can’t cos he keeps growing
Either way as cha****ng said, bite their hands off at that price... thought about it and thought sod it! Before my 5% off voucher expired and arrive before I’m away on hols.
Pikes has a scratched air chamber according to TFT
I'd not read much into that, they said the very same about my Lyriks back in 2016 still running good now
I’d not read much into that, they said the very same about my Lyriks back in 2016 still running good now
Yeah, I had a shock of the kids 24" about then that was "imminently going to fail" and "at least 3 months" to get a replacement damper shaft. It was a pretty rare and diminutive model so I was worried about failure and not being able to ride.
As it happens I ended up finding a replacement from some Spanish company that had weird stock... for <£100 for the whole shock except air can then the week later I got an air can for 99p in Planet X odds and ends...
I sold the bike end of last year still using that shock which had been totally hammered and only had air can services for 3-4 years. I gave the buyer the spare shock just in case.
Now the Pike isn't critical to riding I'll give it a full stripdown and shove it on the OH's bike.