Tora conversion?

Horton

My other half has a shiny new Trek Fuel which came supplied with RS TORA 302 120mm coil sprung fixed travel. This is a WSD bike (14.5 inch frame)l yet Trek still saw fit to supply the forks with the red spring - for people about 75 odd kilos which is frankly rather silly as she only gets half the travel at most.

I have had the soft (yellow) springs on order through the bike shop for over a month and Fisher (UK RS distributors) are not hopeful they will be able to get any as the 120mm fixed travel are OEM forks.

Question is this: The soft U-turn spring and assembly seems relatively easy to source but I have no idea if it will fit, and nor do the bike shop. Anyone here know or can help?

Thanks in advance!

supersonic

If the fork is all travel and can be run at 130mm, then you can convert. You remove the whole pushrod and spring assembly and simply replace with a the Uturn (inc its unique pushrod). And of course the top cap.

Not cheap though.

Horton

Cheers. Yeah the fixed travel springs are only about £20 but I think the U-turn springs are about 45 or so plus I would then need the push-rod (hadn't realised that was diff). Frankly I'd rather swap the whole lot out for a new fork but t'other half rather likes the natty pink/white colour scheme! Thanks for your help!

supersonic

Have a look on Fisher Outdoor's web page for part codes.

Horton

Thanks for your reply SS. Any idea how I would know if the forks are of the all travel type - I assumed that to keep costs down the internals would essentially be the same just with diff size spacers to alter the travel.

supersonic

You need to look at your damper shaft for all travel spacers. See service guide at SRAM.

The Spiderman

http://www.tftunedshox.com/Catalogue/Shop-RockShox/RockShox/RockShox-Fork-Springs

If Fisher are slow phone up TFT and see what they have.Extremely helpful on the phone and quick to despatch.

Horton

Thanks chaps. i'll have a tinker and see how I get on when I can get back on sram's webby. Otherwise I'll give TF a cal.