Fork pitting opinions and advice.

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Re: Fork pitting opinions and advice.

Post by royster81 » Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:14 pm

We're did you find those neo?

I've asked Graeme France for some prices and I'll keep an eye out for any forks anyone has for sale.
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Re: Fork pitting opinions and advice.

Post by scooble » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:10 am

Allbike Engineering make new tubes if you want to go down that route, alternatively, look in the back of Classic Mechanics for adverts on re-chroming

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Re: Fork pitting opinions and advice.

Post by royster81 » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:27 am

I'll contact ABE to see how much they charge per leg and see if it's worth doing myself or giving them to someone else to do.
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Re: Fork pitting opinions and advice.

Post by philfingers » Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:33 am

I looked at having mine done, www.pittedforks.co.uk and one other lot (one of which is the company Kev mentioned) both charge circa £140-150 for a pair.
I sold a set of GF ones which i had off Paul Aldridge for £150 recently, they were almost perfect. They were bought for the little RWB NC I had but decided not to keep.
On my Type 7 I used some epoxy resin the fill the nicks, most were out of the seal travel anyway, but as other have said going this route may well last a good while and so long as the forks old oil that's what really matters
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Re: Fork pitting opinions and advice.

Post by viper_biker » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:21 pm

Have a look in the general discussion section about ABE. I don't think I'd be speaking to them.

What about staying local and speaking with PLR or even Belfast Honda and see who they'd use.
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