Since I live about 10 minutes from these guys, I took a ride over to check out the place and see what options they had for improving my forks short of a total rebuild. We talked about doing their basic strip down and cleaning and upgrading the springs while everything is apart. They can also do some work on the valving, to improve damping a bit, instead of springing for the new valves.
I got to talk to the head technition who said they could tune the forks for either sport touring, which would be a softer ride or tune them towards a more aggressive sport bike type of riding.
Has anyone had their forks done by these guys and if so, what upgrade options did you do, short of replacing the cartridges?
I have read most of the fork threads, lot of good info there but sometimes I get a little lost in all the technicalities. I just want to improve the ride as much as possible for general riding conditions with a little bit of stability for more aggressive stuff when hitting the mountains and twisties here. I think I need spring/oil/shimming combo that will put me somewhere in between soft and plush and aggressive track settings.
Any opinions on your experience/results are appreciated!
thanks
Tom