Hello from the Isle of Man!!

Im gonna jump straight to my point... I have a 2010 Gas Gas pro300 and yesterday whilst riding i noticed my front forks felt different. When i say differen, its when i pull the front end up and there was no real dampening and the forks knock just before the wheel comes off the dirt. I also noticed they dont push down as far as before. Any help or advice would be great. I bought the bike from Steve Colley and it had only done 20 miles or so and the forks had not been used as it was his mono bike. I phoned him and he had never come across this problem before.

Chris

Hello from the Isle of Man!!

Im gonna jump straight to my point... I have a 2010 Gas Gas pro300 and yesterday whilst riding i noticed my front forks felt different. When i say differen, its when i pull the front end up and there was no real dampening and the forks knock just before the wheel comes off the dirt. I also noticed they dont push down as far as before. Any help or advice would be great. I bought the bike from Steve Colley and it had only done 20 miles or so and the forks had not been used as it was his mono bike. I phoned him and he had never come across this problem before.

Chris

Chris,

For the first step, I think you'll need to pull the forks off and dis-assemble them to see what the problem could be.

Jon

Chris,

For the first step, I think you'll need to pull the forks off and dis-assemble them to see what the problem could be.

Jon

Hi Jon,

Should I strip down both forks? Colley told me one fork is compression and one rebound. Im not sure I have the knowledge to start stripping them down, a friend I know, Juan Knight, reckons he knows what the problem is so I'm heading to see him on Friday so fingers crossed he'l sort it.

Chris

Chris,

If you're not familiar with forks, I'd have someone check them before stripping them down, like you are going to do. It may be that the noise is not from the fork at all (may be disc or brake pad related and normal). I doubt you can feel how the damping is working unless you have some experience. Just pushing up and down the forks is usually too slow a movement for the damping mechanism to have an effect that is noticed by the average rider.

Jon