I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k - Page 4 - SV650.org

07-09-09, 02:01 PM

So weres the best place to start looking for progressive springs? cheers

yorkie_chris · 07-09-09, 02:01 PM

Hagon.

But I would use linear.

Dave20046 · 07-09-09, 08:45 PM

Aren't linear like three times the price? Find my hagons fine for pootling if you absolutely hammer it or have unlimited money then yeah go for linears!

yorkie_chris · 08-09-09, 07:09 AM

There's not much in it AFAIK

Dave20046 · 08-09-09, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

There's not much in it AFAIK

ah sorry for some reason I thought linears were £150+ must have been thinking of something completely different.

yorkie_chris · 08-09-09, 11:13 AM

You are thinking about emulators I think

Dave20046 · 08-09-09, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

You are thinking about emulators I think

Yes I am!

Should have got bloody linears myself last month instead o prog.s cause I remembered they were supposed to be better but then thought of what I thought was the cost and didn't bother looking into them.

08-09-09, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave20046

Yes I am!

Should have got bloody linears myself last month instead o prog.s cause I remembered they were supposed to be better but then thought of what I thought was the cost and didn't bother looking into them.

****
edit above had the letters, ares, in it but not in that order. i wasn't calling you a **** dave.

northwind · 08-09-09, 06:21 PM

Like's been said the oil wears out, and it's too thin in the first place for most folks, so it's not so much that they "go", just that for most people it's worth correcting the forks and springs in the first place, and even though they start out wrong they do get worse.

the thing is, suspension usually goes wrong slowly, so it's really easy not to notice- you just adjust. A mate of mine has an RVF400, he's convinced it's a razor sharp handler since it's an RVF, but it's 50000 miles old and the suspension's utterly shagged, it goes round corners like a drunk. But he doesn't think so because it didn't suddenly go bad, it got slightly worse over the course of a decade and he just got used to it. I shouldn't be too up myself over this since there's every chance the same thing's happened to my SV and I've not noticed either

ixlr8 · 09-09-09, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by rictus01

As a point of reference, the forks don't "go" on the SV, my SV (K2 SVS) Had 153,000 miles on 4 oil changes, original seals and progressive spings,that said there are three parts that wear and degrade over time/use.
Cheers Mark.

120,000 harsh courier km, fairly quickly progressed to losing its bump deflection, locked solid. 4 oil changes, no problem with seals even at the end. New forks now for the last 22,000.

07-09-09, 02:01 PM	#31
robh539 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k So weres the best place to start looking for progressive springs? cheers

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yorkie_chris Noisy Git Mega Poster Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Halifax/Leeds Posts: 26,645	Re: I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k Hagon. But I would use linear. __________________ Currently Ex Biker Now rebuilding a 63' fishing trawler as a dive boat

07-09-09, 08:45 PM	#33
Dave20046 Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sheffield Posts: 10,274	Re: I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k Aren't linear like three times the price? Find my hagons fine for pootling if you absolutely hammer it or have unlimited money then yeah go for linears! __________________

08-09-09, 07:09 AM	#34
yorkie_chris Noisy Git Mega Poster Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Halifax/Leeds Posts: 26,645	Re: I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k There's not much in it AFAIK __________________ Currently Ex Biker Now rebuilding a 63' fishing trawler as a dive boat

08-09-09, 11:13 AM	#36
yorkie_chris Noisy Git Mega Poster Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Halifax/Leeds Posts: 26,645	Re: I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k You are thinking about emulators I think __________________ Currently Ex Biker Now rebuilding a 63' fishing trawler as a dive boat

08-09-09, 06:21 PM	#39
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Re: I've been told that the front forks go at about 30k Like's been said the oil wears out, and it's too thin in the first place for most folks, so it's not so much that they "go", just that for most people it's worth correcting the forks and springs in the first place, and even though they start out wrong they do get worse. the thing is, suspension usually goes wrong slowly, so it's really easy not to notice- you just adjust. A mate of mine has an RVF400, he's convinced it's a razor sharp handler since it's an RVF, but it's 50000 miles old and the suspension's utterly shagged, it goes round corners like a drunk. But he doesn't think so because it didn't suddenly go bad, it got slightly worse over the course of a decade and he just got used to it. I shouldn't be too up myself over this since there's every chance the same thing's happened to my SV and I've not noticed either __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

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