What is a good alternative to a TY 175 fork, I know many replace them with TY 250 fork but since there so few of them avalable maybe there is an alternative that does not require me to sell my home to buy

Guy

Triple trees limit your options to run larger stanchion tubes, the stock steering head bearing is the weak part.  Steering head bearing upgrade to taper bearing is relatively inexpensive and gives you the most bang for your buck.

... if you could devise a way to run a fatter axle and larger bearings that would go a long way to stiffening the front end, it's not hard to twist TY175 forks.  Super important to replace the stock wheel bearings frequently to maintain suspension and brake performance.

Edited April 3, 20251 yr by lemur

With light oil and teflon coated bushes in the lower legs, I find the stock TY175 forks to work pretty well.

20 hours ago, mcman56 said:

With light oil and teflon coated bushes in the lower legs, I find the stock TY175 forks to work pretty well.

If only classic TY had teflon coated bushings in the lower legs to replace, but sadly they do not.

The lower legs can be modified to accept standard size bushings.

 

 

 

Had to do the same thing to my 250s forks due to wear but used bronze, am using 17mm aluminium axles plus magicals springs & the updated damper rods which work really well