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I have a new Ragley Big Al with a 140mm Rockshox Recon. The stanchions look to be bone dry and the first fork pumps always result in a small squeaking noise (this goes away very quickly and then they're silent). I'm thinking the fork sponges may have been put in with no oil in them, and the minor squeaking noise is the rubber seals being bone dry ?
Perhaps I'm paranoid, but I never run a new fork until I've done a lowers service.
The other option is to tie the brake levers closed and flip the bike for half hour or so. Then give the forks a few compressions and leave a while longer. Then flip right way up and check.
It could just be that they've been upright too long and gravity has done its thing.
Good shout, will try the bike upside down and see if any lower leg oil seeps into the sponges.
My experience with rockshox is too much grease in the air shaft and bugger all on the seals with the foam rings only semi saturated in oil, some people have had no crush washers and some hardly any oil in the lowers so always worth pulling the lowers off and checking imo.