I have just finished fitting a new pair of "Progressive Fork Springs" into my TY250 T/S and I am very pleased with the results.

It is widely known that the TY250 T/S's forks are a bit on the soft side (especially after 30 years) and one of the publicised remedies is to fit the forks and front wheel from a Mono.

I used to have a Mono about 17 years ago and don't remember the forks being particularly good (or bad for that matter), and so decided that buying a new fork assembly, front wheel and so on, probably from ebay, if one came up and if I was the succesful bidder and if once I'd received it, whether it would be any good, left a lot to chance, especially as the Mono front wheel has a reputation for rotting inside the tyre and you wouldn't know what you'd won untill it had arrived in the post.

So, wanting to improve the quality of my original front suspension to complement my recently purchased new Falcon rear shocks, I decided to buy the WIRTH-FEDERN Progressive Front Springs I'd seen on Ebay from a seller in Germany. (pam-teile).

They are manufactured in Germany and are supplied with a TUV C of C, in German, of course. They are supplied with all necessary spacers and washers required to drop straight in, and were delivered inside a week.

They cost

Edited December 9, 200718 yr by mollygreen

You could have bought WES progressive springs available from many dealers (B Pye, steve goode etc) Cost about 30 quid

lee

You could have bought WES progressive springs available from many dealers (B Pye, steve goode etc) Cost about 30 quid

lee

Well Lee, it's like this really:

Q: Why do people buy BMW, Mercedes and Audi?

They could just have easily gone out and bought themselves a Ford or a Vauxhall, lets face it, they will do the same job!

A: You can't beat a bit of quality German engineering.

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it. After all, it's only money!

I couldn't resist having a bit of a giggle reading this string about the merits of different fork springs for a 35 year old motorcycle.

For many years I wanted new fork springs for some of my TY250s and could find no suppliers for them anywhere. In about 2001, I finally found a supplier and was very happy to be able to buy something somewhere (B&J Racing Products - Tenessee USA). Now a few years later again we have people arguing about whether German made TY250 fork springs are better than UK made TY250 fork springs!!

Things are looking great for supply of Twinshock trials bike parts when we see arguments like this cropping up. The debates about which are the best shockies for twinshock bikes are a similarly good sign.

By the way, for quite a few years (not sure if it is still the case now) if you bought a new BMW car in Australia, the suspension springs on it were made in Australia - something to do with the German springs being too soft for the spirited driving BMWs are subjected to here in OZ.