I couldn't find a bike shop in my country that would do a lower leg service on SR Suntours more premium forks, the list of bike shops on their website was a total grave yard. The first 10 on the list had gone out of business at which point I stopped bothering. None of my local bike shops would touch them either because they only did Fox or Rockshox forks (including the shop that sold me the bike), and they didn't know anyone that would work on them. So I didn't really have much choice other than to do it myself or buy new forks. It took me a few goes to get it right the first time, but no damage done. There was large quantities of oil in the lower legs, which came as a big surprise considering that SR Suntour forks don't use oil baths and the forks had never been serviced since new. So I didn't know whether to put oil or grease back in to them. SR Suntour customer support helped me out though, they think that the grease must have separated, and told me to fully disassemble the forks and put new grease in. The forks have been fine ever since.
Same thing for me in Germany. No shop wants to service my Suntour Auron Boost fork and TriAir rear shock, they all just do Rockshox and Fox. Those god damn elitists even asked me if I wouldn't rather want to "upgrade" my suspension to worse FOX models instead. I'm running pretty much the same setup as Doddy does at 05:20 and it works like a charm, but thanks to the fact that all of my local bike shops are snobs I have to do all the service work myself...
Those lower end suntours, are generally coil spring with a basic preload adjustment so would just require a clean inside and the spring re greased etc.
Mines an Aion, so it's air sprung. It would have been easy to do, if everything was as expected. But when it's your first time and oil is flowing out the bottom of forks that shouldn't have any in them (outside the damper) , it makes it a bit more difficult. But now that I have fully stripped them down and rebuilt them, if anything goes wrong I feel like I am in a pretty good place to put it right. Especially since I ran in to multiple obscure issues along the way where things didn't do what they were supposed to during disassembly.
@@aljowen Well that was a good learning experience on many levels then. You learned that some shopkeepers are full of shit and not suited for the job and also you learnt new skills and more about your suspension.
Alright this is great content I love this stuff. My dream is to have a setup in my workshop that is equipped to rebuild dampers and eventually get into revalving like this. For the time being I'm going to get some training from the suspension centre.
Great video. Good to see the insides. Easy to understand the cost of servicing. Also the cost of the shock itself. Such expertise from the country’s best suspension agent.
If you look at the writing on the shop towel, you can see h m and I assume l is there. these are the areas each shim work on. also watch as he takes the previous ones off. this will give you an idea bubt I would say youtube should throw up some videos on it
#askGMBNTech. Hi guys. Great vid, I’m having a problem with my full sus set up and could use some help. I’ve got a specialised Pitch with adjustable front fork and a Fox Float air shock on the rear. I cannot for the life of me get the rebound to slow down on the rear shock. Any advice would be a massive help. Thanks guys love the channel
#askgmbntech Hello guys, I know that if you lock your front suspension and you hit a bump, you risk damaging it. Does it also apply for the rear shock? Does it matter if its coil or air ? Love the show, keep it up.
Most lock outs are just closing your slow speed compression, if you hit a big enough bump they should still bypass that, moving the suspension and not damage anything.
@@MariusTheDude compress it by hand, if it's a complete lockout it shouldn't move at all really, if it has a bit of movement when you compress it, it's more of a "firm" setting to aid climbing, instead of a complete lockout.
This is definitely my favourite video in quite a long time, PLEASE do more of this!!
Dam that seat angle
The sonic dip.
Dam that bar roll
climbs well
Would have been nice to see a conversation about what changes were made to the shim stack and how much, of what affect it might have.
I couldn't find a bike shop in my country that would do a lower leg service on SR Suntours more premium forks, the list of bike shops on their website was a total grave yard. The first 10 on the list had gone out of business at which point I stopped bothering. None of my local bike shops would touch them either because they only did Fox or Rockshox forks (including the shop that sold me the bike), and they didn't know anyone that would work on them. So I didn't really have much choice other than to do it myself or buy new forks.
It took me a few goes to get it right the first time, but no damage done. There was large quantities of oil in the lower legs, which came as a big surprise considering that SR Suntour forks don't use oil baths and the forks had never been serviced since new. So I didn't know whether to put oil or grease back in to them. SR Suntour customer support helped me out though, they think that the grease must have separated, and told me to fully disassemble the forks and put new grease in. The forks have been fine ever since.
Same thing for me in Germany. No shop wants to service my Suntour Auron Boost fork and TriAir rear shock, they all just do Rockshox and Fox. Those god damn elitists even asked me if I wouldn't rather want to "upgrade" my suspension to worse FOX models instead. I'm running pretty much the same setup as Doddy does at 05:20 and it works like a charm, but thanks to the fact that all of my local bike shops are snobs I have to do all the service work myself...
Those lower end suntours, are generally coil spring with a basic preload adjustment so would just require a clean inside and the spring re greased etc.
Super easy to do it yourself
Mines an Aion, so it's air sprung.
It would have been easy to do, if everything was as expected. But when it's your first time and oil is flowing out the bottom of forks that shouldn't have any in them (outside the damper) , it makes it a bit more difficult.
But now that I have fully stripped them down and rebuilt them, if anything goes wrong I feel like I am in a pretty good place to put it right. Especially since I ran in to multiple obscure issues along the way where things didn't do what they were supposed to during disassembly.
@@aljowen Well that was a good learning experience on many levels then. You learned that some shopkeepers are full of shit and not suited for the job and also you learnt new skills and more about your suspension.
and I'm here feeling like a wizard after making a few clicks on my rebound :D
cool vid
Banger...love a more detailed edu-edit on how shim stacks work...
Vorsprung has a good video about this, if I remember correctly.
Alright this is great content I love this stuff. My dream is to have a setup in my workshop that is equipped to rebuild dampers and eventually get into revalving like this. For the time being I'm going to get some training from the suspension centre.
Great video. Good to see the insides. Easy to understand the cost of servicing. Also the cost of the shock itself. Such expertise from the country’s best suspension agent.
Mind blown on shim stacking. Don't think I'm giving that a go. Great video
Excellent content and very informative. I think the “custom tune” is often misunderstood and underrated. Subscribed.
Perfect Sunday nerdy viewing, just what I needed today 😊
Chris is such a good guy I would trust him with my pride and Joy !!!
Does that Rhyme? 👍😎🤣
Awesome video, loved the detail on the EXT Storia rebuild, those guys are wizards at Mojo.
Just serviced the suspension on my bike, great video to watch afterwards :)
I'm 15 and I can do a lower leg service on my forks, and adjusting the travel.
I’m 15 too can do an air can service on my shock but never tried lower legs is it easy as people make it look 😂
Will Bennett yes
what a great interview. really useful advice given here.
You should do more content like this, the tech part was very interesting.
EXT...very impressive heritage. F1, with Lotus. Invented High/Low speed circuits... #wow #extshox 👍👍👍
Awesome video guys you’ve just convinced me to leave this one for my bike mechanic 🧐
What a treat that was .
Nice 👍
great upload, love the workshop/factory tour uploads
TA
Chris remind me of The Last Samurai
14:13 I haven't seen this tool before. is this a custom tool? looks like it.
Wooow this is so interesting loving this type of videos the lads it mojo are some sort of geniuses where do they learn it all 😂👍
Been waiting for this. Thanks!
Dig it. Cool episode.
The perfect MTB ASMR video doesn't exsi........
Woah! A real ute on this set of channels, thought id never see the day!
You guys forgot to mention trying different weight oils. Definately a step to try before stuffing around with shim stacks.
Can anyone tell me where is Tomi Saaranen?
Hi. Where did You found that violet fork’s bumbers please ?
Are these guys doing Formula forks yet ?
A very interesting watch.
Very cool video
They've got my EXT Storia shock for a service.
lol marzocchi your killin me
Should have shown the whole rebuild in more detail though.
Morning henry
Really interesting, would have been good to see how he increased the compression using different shims.
If they are similar to motorcycle shocks (which they are actually) most use thicker and thinner shims.
If you look at the writing on the shop towel, you can see h m and I assume l is there. these are the areas each shim work on. also watch as he takes the previous ones off. this will give you an idea bubt I would say youtube should throw up some videos on it
really need to get my rebound adjustment done asap
#askGMBNTech. Hi guys. Great vid, I’m having a problem with my full sus set up and could use some help. I’ve got a specialised Pitch with adjustable front fork and a Fox Float air shock on the rear. I cannot for the life of me get the rebound to slow down on the rear shock. Any advice would be a massive help. Thanks guys love the channel
If you are sponsored by DT Swiss why don't you use their suspension and droppers?
Is this shop open for the public to get shocks serviced if so where is it
they have a hill for testing on too seemingly
#askgmbntech Hello guys, I know that if you lock your front suspension and you hit a bump, you risk damaging it. Does it also apply for the rear shock? Does it matter if its coil or air ? Love the show, keep it up.
Most lock outs are just closing your slow speed compression, if you hit a big enough bump they should still bypass that, moving the suspension and not damage anything.
@@beno9966 but how can you tell if your suspension or shock has this option (for example I have a manitou markhor ) ?
@@MariusTheDude I'm not sure with that specific fork sorry.
@@MariusTheDude compress it by hand, if it's a complete lockout it shouldn't move at all really, if it has a bit of movement when you compress it, it's more of a "firm" setting to aid climbing, instead of a complete lockout.
After watching that I think I'll just stick with my hardtail 👍
🤦♂️🙄
Hello
Sensei of tubes
This video felt like a waste of time while I was watching it.... but I still couldn’t stop. So it must have been good! I think.
Definitely waste of time, like - suspension is for suspend rider.
Well, one must say - mostly all of the videos here became a waste of time.
Oh i understood none of it, nowt. I do know that i love these smaller type of specialised business run by enthusiasts not corporate
I bet the guy is a kama sutra guru too.
seeing that saddle position makes it so much harder to trust this guys opinion :D
Yeah I couldn't concentrate on that bit cos it disturbed me so much 😁
lol same
Looks like he's got it set up for steep climbing. When he's descending he's not sitting on it.
High end shop pumping the IFP with air instead of NO2...
Not all systems require nitrogen especially at low psi like that one
Nitrogen just has less moisture in there than air so with such low psi required there it really doesn't matter
Another video kind of - we walk because ... we move our legs forward.
Still clueless.....