Does anyone have a link to a post with photos and instructions on installing a Works Performance ST1100 (non-ABS) Fork Spring kit? I did a search but did not find a link with photos.
Tom
Tom
The only thing that I ran into was that the 3" preload spacers (gray plastic PVC pipe) sent with the kit were way too long. I ended using about 1 3/8" which feels right to me.
I just ordered a wilbers 640 shock but now I need to think about the fork springs. do you think progressive type springs are best Uncle Phil?
and will they need these spacers fitted for preload. it says nothing in the Haynes manual about spacers as far as I know.
I just ordered a wilbers 640 shock but now I need to think about the fork springs. do you think progressive type springs are best Uncle Phil?
and will they need these spacers fitted for preload. it says nothing in the Haynes manual about spacers as far as I know.
He runs a motorcycle suspension shop and has never heard of anyone putting in pieces of pvc pipe to increase preload on a spring,
their product is supposed to be tried and tested and specific to the st1100.... although he has never done the forks on an st1100 before.
Wow, not exactly confidence inspiring, but springs aren't all that complicated anyway. People have been using PVC pipe to preload forks for decades, hard to imagine him never hearing about it.
Thanks dwalby,
I suspect he's been used to more modern bikes with adjustable forks,I will be installing these springs and new shock myself anyway,his shop is around 400 miles away,thats alot on this small island of Ireland!!
I weigh around 240lbs suited up so I'd imagine UP's 1 3/8" spacer mightn't be far of for me
I can't wait now to get the new suspension installed.
Ha ha, from your avatar picture I envisioned some grizzled old gray haired guy who's been working on bikes in rural Ireland since the mid-'50s out of some old rusty shack. I forget how old and low-tech the ST1100 is, but you're right, any bike made in the last 15-20 years with a decent suspension has had external adjustments for preload, and both compression and rebound dampening. I actually owned one of them, but crashed it a couple of times so its no longer in my garage, so I sometimes forget how technology has advanced since the ST was designed.
Yes, because there is no other way that I can figure that you could change the preload on ST1100 forks without the spacer - unless you could find fork caps that had a preload adjustment built into them. You might tell him that your front forks have no preload adjuster and see what his response is.
Thanks Uncle Phil, yeah I will let him know that and see what he comes up with,be interesting to see what answer wilbers have themselves to the issue.
I'll keep you poSTed anyway on how it turns out.