Fork spring spacer
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Fork spring spacer
I was helping a friend with their forks yesterday and there was a PVC spacer that someone put between the top of the spring and the cap. I guess this was put there to make the spring stiffer?
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Re: Fork spring spacer
Yep & raise the front a bit.Leckbass wrote:I was helping a friend with their forks yesterday and there was a PVC spacer that someone put between the top of the spring and the cap. I guess this was put there to make the spring stiffer?
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Re: Fork spring spacer
It could be he has after-market springs, like Progressive, that require a different length spacer; it is very common for someone to cut a length of schedule 40 pipe to be that spacer.
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Re: Fork spring spacer
+1, if it was about 3" long, they were probably Progressive springs.WintrSol wrote:It could be he has after-market springs, like Progressive, that require a different length spacer; it is very common for someone to cut a length of schedule 40 pipe to be that spacer.
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Re: Fork spring spacer
Thanks for help, I don't think it was anything special, just looked like a small piece of pvc. Prob more like 2 inches long.