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Can you point me to a source for air forks at that price? I’d happily buy one at $200 but have had no luck finding any. It seems that suspension forks for straight threadless 1 1/8″ headsets are all but extinct at the places I’ve searched. Some sites have some listed but they usually appear as out of stock or backordered. It seems that a lot of bike parts have become exceptionally hard to source over the past year or so.
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If you double your money and spend $200 you could buy an air fork and greatly improve the ride.
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Thank you for the reply! I’ve tried searching for the Englund cartridges before (thank you for reminding me of the name; I found it before and forgot it) but it’s hen’s teeth at this point. Even worse one page I found for describing it had a link to a bike shop that no longer exists, whose domain is now some kind of crazy naughty pictures site (presumably trying to sell me stuff in a language I cannot read (yes I know about google translate but I’m content to assume what is being sold there is not what I’m looking for)).
I should clarify that I was talking about two different foks in my first post. My Judy SL on my homegrown is still in decent riding shape; I’d like to find a rebuild kit for it more out of curiosity than anything as I do ride it on occasion.
I was also talking about the RockShox Indy (presumably Indy anyways, the decals are in poor shape) on my son’s Moab 3 aluminum. *That* fork is rock hard, absolutely no travel. For better or for worse it is fully extended so at least it isn’t bottomed out, but it doesn’t even move a mm if I put all my weight directly above the headset. It feels like someone ripped out the innards and replaced them with steel tubing. That fork I don’t have any special attachment to and would be happy to just outright replace if I could find a fork at a reasonable price (preferably under $100 new as I only paid $120 for the entire bike).
Thank you for the quick reply! It seems like an interesting creature, and I just might have to make a run over to look at it. The owner is asking $375, is that a reasomnable price for it? My best guess for what to price it against would be the carbon Gary Fisher Joshuas of the same ear, and $375 is slightly less than expected for those in BBB.
All that said, I don’t need a softtail right now. And my wife would probably rather I not buy another bike (regardless of how odd the next one is). It’s just fun to toy with the idea in my head…
thank you!
