Mountain bike forks and shocks are expensive, high-tech products that require regular maintenance to keep them performing at their best. While manufacturers recommend specific service intervals, some riders choose to follow them while others do not.
Share your perspective on suspension service intervals and any lessons learned in the comments below!
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Jun 4, 2023
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Jun 5, 2023
Like today's drivetrains, the high price of quality suspensions drives me to keep them cleaned and well lubed. I simply need to squeeze all the usable life out of them in order to keep running my preferred set up of Fox suspension and Shimano XT/XTR.
Jun 6, 2023
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Jun 6, 2023
After incurring about $600 in shock rebuilds this past year (one for a DPX2 that was over due, and twice for an X2 Factory that's been crapping out about every 40 hours) my new strategy going forward is to will be to do air cans but to otherwise just run the shocks into the ground then replace them with a DVO so I can service them myself.
Jun 6, 2023
That is why "as needed" comes into play. Higher mileage on that odometer? Do a service more often. Muck n grunge environments definitely require the service frequency to go up.
These shocks are silly expensive to replace, so stands to reason...
Jun 9, 2023