Seized up Front Suspension

Jsolid
Jsolid Posts: 15
edited June 2009 in MTB workshop & tech
I was on a 2 hour ride last weekend and as I came to the end of the ride (10mins from the end) my front suspension forks seized up. It was my first ride for a couple of weeks.

Any advice on what could have caused it and how I should go about fixing it? I'm fairly pants at bike maintenance but very keen to learn more.

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    and the forks are what?

    make model and year please.

    and what was the weather like?
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  • Jsolid
    Jsolid Posts: 15
    The forks are XCR 100mm travel SR Suntour that came with my Carrera Kraken '07.

    The weather was pretty bad, heavy rain, windy etc.
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    they will be full of water.

    service time.
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  • Jsolid
    Jsolid Posts: 15
    Being a maintenance noob, is that something I could/should try myself or take it to the local shop?

    Thanks for the help.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Fairly simple fork to pull apart, clean and grease.

    Suntour website has diagrams.
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  • Matt 24k
    Matt 24k Posts: 186
    edited June 2009
    Those Suntour Forks may look OK but as you have found they are not really up to more than going up and down kerbs. For a good budget fork that actually works off road you can't go far wrong with these http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/rockshox ... 47662.html
  • lesz42
    lesz42 Posts: 690
    those forks dont like rain, got 3 week old ones, on my bike, they locked after a lap around llandegla in the rain
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,816
    Matt 24k wrote:
    Those RST Forks may look OKl
    When the OP clearly said Suntour?

    LOL the ultra cheapy 'zoom' forks my Daughter has have water drain holes in the bottom!

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  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    my cxr's i used to have had that problem, ride them in the wet, and.... they got full of water and seised up! drain and regrease time!
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