6 replies to this topic

[Lee Harris]

I just picked up a 2006 2.9 Sherco

In reasonable condition, a fork stanction does have some damage. If it was chrome, I would know were to go, but it is back coated...teflon?? Where can I get it repaired...

Lee

[paul w]

give these guys a go, they do a lot of other stuff as well.
www.kais-ohlins.co.uk

[Lee Harris]

Thanks I will give them a cal!

lee

[copemech]

God only knows what that black finish really is, yet I suspect some plasma/vacume applied tungston technology from Paioli!

[Lee Harris]

i fixed it...sold

[Bark]

I thought most of the goldish colored fork coatings was titanium nitride. I had thought that the darker chrome coloring was boron nitride. I believe that both materials are selected because they are super hard and that they accomplish this hardness by approximating the atomic structure of diamond. Anyone know?

Bark

[NZRalphy]

Yip. The gold and rainbow coloured forks are a vacuum flash vapor deposited coating of titanium reacted with nitrogen all over the top of hard chrome plating. The TI coating mimics a very hard ceramic surface. I never knew the dark coating was boron... is it the same as the black chrome exhausts of years ago?