During a few hours of really strenuous trail riding, the Fox shock on
my R100GS spat out maybe a spoonful or so of heavy oil.

Pretty obviously the shock's ready for a rebuild, but the question
is how soon. Since I still have damping and it's not continuing
to leak, I assume this probably was a single event when the
suspension bottomed out.

I hate to lay the bike up in the middle of good riding weather.
Any thoughts on what happened or urgency of an immediate
rebuild ?

Also, any experience with Works shocks ? I may have a line
on a good Works unit as a temporary or permanent replacement.

TIA

On Jun 29, 8:20*am, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...@aol.com> wrote:

> Any thoughts on what happened or urgency of an immediate
> rebuild ?

Compression pressure was too high and the foot valve couldn't deal
with it.

The urgency of repairs on anything mechanical depends upon your own
state of mind...

> Also, any experience with Works shocks ?

They work great. I have a set with the dual adjustable springs and the
velocity sensitive balls that are an alternative to a shim stack.

perhaps they were overfilled to the point that at bottoming the fluid had
no-where to go but out?
I can't recall which brand, but the aftermarket shocks all failed (3 bikes)
during a short stretch on Ewan and Charlie's Africa trip.I believe they had
only brought along one stock one as a spare. ( A sharp contrast to the first
trip, where they took the "eveything but the kitchen sink" approach) If it
has stopped leaking , maybe all is OK?


"Rob Kleinschmidt" <Rkleinsch1216128@aol.com> wrote in message
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> During a few hours of really strenuous trail riding, the Fox shock on
> my R100GS spat out maybe a spoonful or so of heavy oil.
>
> Pretty obviously the shock's ready for a rebuild, but the question
> is how soon. Since I still have damping and it's not continuing
> to leak, I assume this probably was a single event when the
> suspension bottomed out.
>
> I hate to lay the bike up in the middle of good riding weather.
> Any thoughts on what happened or urgency of an immediate
> rebuild ?
>
> Also, any experience with Works shocks ? I may have a line
> on a good Works unit as a temporary or permanent replacement.
>
> TIA