Super springy forks

MentalRaver

Hey everyone,

My other half's bike (Saracen Mantra SE) has got Suntour forks on the front.

They are really springy and have led to two stacks of recent times. When she sticks the brakes on, particularly the front, it dips forward largely (like 40% of it's travel) and then pops up leading to rear end take off if she doesn't stick her weight back.

I know it's the forks as I Endo and nose turn on my bike and when on her bike it feels sketchy to say the least. To add to this, it feels like the bike sits really high up on the front.

Bike is only about 15 hours old over 6 months.

Any idea's? Rebound? Change spring? Cheap fork change option for about £100 maybe?

nicklouse

what forks? Suntour do make quite a few.

name and all the numbers/letters will tell us what the fork is and has.

MentalRaver

XCR, non lock out. Has adjusters for stiffness on either fork at the top. The missus is a lil heavier than most as he's 5ft10ins tall. She'll kill me if she reads that!

nicklouse

XCR what?

ta,rl,lo,da or just the plain boring xcr?

scroll down http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/SID=si ... &tnid=1155

MentalRaver

boring XCR or maybe DA. The bikes at her house, sorry.

nicklouse

well if it is the DA you arein luck there is a rebound adjuster.

if not then sorry nothing.

if you are going to consider a frok change Tora's.

MentalRaver

looking at the pics, its possibly not listed.

It's got this adjuster on top of both legs that you can see on the left, on the bottom pictures.

http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/SID=si ... &tnid=1225

thanks for this.

ROCHA

Is there an adjuster on the bottom? If not it's the basic version.

MentalRaver

I believe there is....

supersonic

Do you have a lockout dial? the hydraulic compression based version can be set halfway to help prevent dive. We really need to know the EXCACt model.