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I've noticed a few pictures of curvy model SVs with pre-load adjusters on the forks. My curvy doesn't have any adjustment at all on it so I'm assuming that people are fitting these adjusters retrospectively. Am I right and if so what are they from?
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kind of=they were fitted to late 02 curvys
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Ah right, thanks for that Husky. I take it they should fit my 2000 curvy then?
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yep
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Cheers for the info.
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Money better spent on the insides, not the out. When you have proper springs and sag set you won't touch them.
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It was more in the nature of an idle enquiry really yc. Forks are not too bad on the whole, they seem to work ok for my 11½ stone. When I do finally pull them apart 9probably next winter) I'm likely to be putting a set of progressive springs in along with new oil, seals and bushes. I may well just top them off with a set of preload adjusters.
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I would spend on those cheap emulators from states instead if you were determined to spend money. Also I would not replace seals and bushes unless they needed it.
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The seals certainly will need doing by then if not before. They are already leaving a faint black ring of dirty oil around the top limit of the travel on the stanchions after a few days of riding so I suspect given the mileage I'm clocking up on the bike they are going to need doing sooner rather than much later. I'm inclined to give the forks a really good overhaul while I have them apart.
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Just put K-Tech springs in my Curvy @ 37000 miles. Seals & bushes were fine.
Wouldn't be surprised if most of the black line is road filth?
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