Two simple suspension fork maintenance tips

because of the way bicycles are and weight is an issue in all that the lubrication that is in these Forks it's pretty minimal in fact each of these two legs only has that much oil lying around in the bottom so guys a simple tip with your with your bike do it once a week simply turn your bike upside down and just leave it upside down on the handlebars for 10 minutes and this lovely little wiper sill here and sponge get saturated as oil that makes a huge difference to the quality of suspension you're going to get out of your fork but more importantly keeps his upper seals lubricated and running smoothly don't pressure wash your bike using the pressure washer simply just blows all the water and muck deeper into the wiper seals which then again causes all their premature wearing on the sliders if you have had a muddy ride or even a very dusty one by all means use some soapy water but just a light hose get a soft brush if need be get in all the nooks and crannies get it washed out and toilet down the stuff here good old-fashioned silicon spray any brand will do a lot of us go to stage races here in South Africa multi-day events and what we do we buy a maintenance package that involves servicing and backwash none of us like washing our bikes and it's really convenient the problem with this is the bike goes off to the backwash area as we've all seen we have a row of guys there pressure washing our bikes that come back looking shiny and neat the fact is that they just causing damage to your bike but if you really want to get long life out of your bike do it yourself if you do these stage races it's a multi-day event get your bike back on the Monday get those lower legs pulled off cleaned put back on 20 minutes service you good to go

Channel: Bike Hub

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Keywords: mountain bike, mountain biking, suspension fork, suspension

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Length: 2min 12sec (132 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 15 2016