Lubricating fork stanchions

hyperman

I've got a set of 2010 rockshox lyrik 2 step air forks, had them for about a month, I noticed the other day that the fork stanchions were bone dry, should I lubricate them? If so how? I've seen on some forks that you put oil under the dust seals? Also i've noticed some oil in the dust cap on the bottom of the fork when I was letting some air out of them, is this ok?

Northwind

Wiping down with fork oil (and bumping til there's no black ring) is the standard lazy person approach. I've got a can of fork juice lately which seems good too, doesn't attract as much dust.

cooldad

I give mine a clean to remove dust mud etc and then a spray with silicon lube after every ride.

geoffsaddlesore

Fork juice, all the way. Good for cold-starting diesel engines on to!

Skonk

Brunox DEO is the one officially recommended by SRAM for their Rockshox stuff.

http://www.brunox.co.uk/

I have a can and it seems to work pretty well.

In all honesty though, it doesn't look/smell much different to GT85.

peter413

My Fox's stanchions never need touched.

They are always lubricated but the seals are fine so is this maybe just a RS thing

Skonk

I have 3 bikes with a mix of Fox, Rockshox and Marzocchi forks; none of them felt like they ever NEEDED any lube but in theory they should stay in better condition if they receive some anyway.

fanatic278

Having just completely stripped and serviced my Rockshox Reba and Revelation forks I feel quite confident in saying that any chain lube will do the trick just fine. Not sure it's the same for your forks, but there's only a small amount of oil squirted into the bottom of each leg that keeps them lubricated (3 - 5 ml), plus about another 5 ml that you can soak into the foam wipers.

So really considering the small amounts and it's only purpose is for lubrication: anything slippery will be fine.

The only proviso: some people say that WD40 is solvent based - so I'd stick with some normal wet chain lube.