Prowler

[LIAW]

I thought the before picture was an after picture....thought that's not bad...then scrolled doon. Noice.

 

thanks, I know they will go brown again as they are only single walled tube, but hopefully will still look better, for a while anyway 

 

 

as I had the forks out already I thought I may as well give them an oil change, the oil seals are still good with no sign of leaks but I don't know when they last had fresh oil,

due to my wrist problem I really need the front end to be very soft to stop shock waves transferring into it and making the ride uncomfortable, they were super bouncy which is good for me but maybe not so good for higher speed handling, I could've bought some 5 weight oil but as I don't have spare money for such things (vet keeps stealing it) I just used what I already have which is half a litre of 5w and a litre of 15w, I mixed my half litre of 5w with half a litre of 15w which should give me something like a 10w, but from previous readings of fork oil weights and people mentioning their differing weights even when they are listed as the 'same' weight I will see how it feels when I eventually get to ride it again, it needed changing though as the stuff that came out looked like thin brown paint,

I also noticed that the top dust seal was quite corroded, luckily I had a new pair in my '''I've absolutely no idea where that part came from''' box that fitted, so I fitted them,

I cleaned up the forks and put them back onto the bike along with the front wheel and brakes, it took a bit of time working out how the routing of cables should go but I think I'm there now,

the downside was that once the forks were back in it was obvious that my previous attempt to allow the cable loom to be pushed back through the frame when the left fork touched it was not as good as I'd hoped, it does move back but it does not do so completely freely, the last inch of turn needs a bit of extra help, not a lot and this may not even be noticeable when riding and full turn isn't often used while riding anyway, I find that full turn is mostly used when moving in or out of parking spots etc.,

if it shows as a problem when the bike sits on its own two wheels again (today) I do have another idea of how the improve it, I'll probably experiment with it regardless  :unsure2: