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..............just get sram butter?
I got a massive tub of Buzzy's Slick Honey which is either the same or pretty damn similar, I'll be using that tub for years.
I've got Stendec Easy Glide grease, bought about 10 years ago, maybe 12 services a year, still got more than half left in the tub.
12 services a year, blimey making me feel inadequate and feeling sorry for my forks....
maybe the same stuff as Sram butter:
pm600 military grease. 500 ml for around 14-17 bucks I think.
Very good stuff. I use it on forks (small service, makes the forks sooo plush again) and other places. 500 ml is a lot of grease so...
When doing the small fork service: instead of soaking the foam rings in fork-oil I grease those - and the upper seal - with lots of pm600.
I’ve got Stendec Easy Glide grease, bought about 10 years ago, maybe 12 services a year, still got more than half left in the tub.
This, apart from the 12 services a year(!!). It's good stuff though and works well.
Strangely, my pot has more left in it than yours... 😉
I thought that the service interval in forks was just a kinda in joke... I didn't realise you were meant to take any notice of it!
I thought that the service interval in forks was just a kinda in joke… I didn’t realise you were meant to take any notice of it!
if your fork steel feels amazingly "plush"... everything is fine. No action required.
But if your fork feels "wooden": the small service will do wonders.
One of my bikes has an low cost RockShox Sektor fork. Was a bit "wooden" from day one and got worse.
After the service: this fork is pretty good! (there was barely a drop of oil in the lowers. Upper seal/foam ring was completely dry. Lousy way of shipping a new fork...)
Service: easy to do.
ended up buying a big tub of rsp slick kick from zee Germans.
I'm a once a month lower service man on main bike and probably every 2-3 on HT and whenever neighbour pops round for me to look at his bike.
I have a tube of the RSP which works well for me.
I'm not convinced there are much more than marginal gains to be had with exact choice of suspension grease, so just buy whichever the shop you're at sells (unless you iz srs racer, in which case obsess away... 😀 )