*copied and pasted from The Shop forum because no replies after half a month
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so ill just immediately start with cliff notes
-riding at mountain creek over the weekend
- noticed my fork was bogging down.. felt fine on the light fast dh trails, but would bottom out very easily on 'steep roller to flat' type downhill... no ramp up what so ever, very linear
-also notice a knocking in my compression side lowers when applying the front brake and rocking the bike back and forth.
-when taking apart the bike i notice my fork sat about 0.5" into its travel with no weight on bike
now here is the video to make things more simple haha
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nniayagdfmn9z4u/20140529_202335.mp4
at first you can see the lateral play in the rod, and then i show you the suction
then i spotted a small crack in a ring
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so i rode another 2 days at highland last weekend and dear god it felt terrible..when standing on bike it would go 40-50% sag and the fork would just stay there getting packed down when doing fast small bump trails.. killing my hands and arms lol.. I hope i did not do anymore damage.
contacted SRAM and from the pictures and video they said it seems to be the main seal head. I bought a new seal head and should be arriving in the next couple days.
Ill be contacting my LBS for the '15 charger damper for sure
just wondering what you guys think it might be, or if anyone has had a similar problem
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so ill just immediately start with cliff notes
-riding at mountain creek over the weekend
- noticed my fork was bogging down.. felt fine on the light fast dh trails, but would bottom out very easily on 'steep roller to flat' type downhill... no ramp up what so ever, very linear
-also notice a knocking in my compression side lowers when applying the front brake and rocking the bike back and forth.
-when taking apart the bike i notice my fork sat about 0.5" into its travel with no weight on bike
now here is the video to make things more simple haha
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nniayagdfmn9z4u/20140529_202335.mp4
at first you can see the lateral play in the rod, and then i show you the suction
then i spotted a small crack in a ring
______________________________
so i rode another 2 days at highland last weekend and dear god it felt terrible..when standing on bike it would go 40-50% sag and the fork would just stay there getting packed down when doing fast small bump trails.. killing my hands and arms lol.. I hope i did not do anymore damage.
contacted SRAM and from the pictures and video they said it seems to be the main seal head. I bought a new seal head and should be arriving in the next couple days.
Ill be contacting my LBS for the '15 charger damper for sure
just wondering what you guys think it might be, or if anyone has had a similar problem