Fox Vanilla Fork Problems
12-13-04, 10:34 PM
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My Fox Fork is set to 125mm, but the negative spring is overpowering the positive, causing it to only be set at 105mm. The fork is 2 years old, and I only do five-6 footers usually to a landing, on a hardtail. I weigh 95 lbs, and am running the purple spring. Any ideas?
12-13-04, 11:31 PM
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Sorry I can't help you, but 95 lbs? Are you female, or a growing male? I need to meet someone who can teach me to do drops, I'm not comfortable with more than 1.5 feet yet.
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squeaks - Master the biggest drops you feel safe on, then move up a bit.
Pop the front wheel up, kinda bunny hop out if you can, land on rear wheel, then go down onto front.
Pop the front wheel up, kinda bunny hop out if you can, land on rear wheel, then go down onto front.
12-14-04, 12:44 AM
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Unless there is a tranny.
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12-15-04, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by squeaks
Sorry I can't help you, but 95 lbs? Are you female, or a growing male?
12-16-04, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by javajumper
I'm 12 years old
Fox fork at the age of ten? You are living the dream of almost everyone of this forum...
12-16-04, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by mindbogger
Fork is 2 years old?...
Fox fork at the age of ten? You are living the dream of almost everyone of this forum...
Fox fork at the age of ten? You are living the dream of almost everyone of this forum...
12-16-04, 11:30 PM
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Yeah, no clue how the last owner treated it. Unless he's someone you know personally and saw how he rode it before you bought it. Outside of that, I'd say it'd be really hard for a 95 lb person to get full travel out of a 125mm fork anyway. I weigh 130 and can't bottom out my 100mm Marzocchi.
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i weigh around 110 and im 14 and i bottom out my 100mm zokey. im looking at the Z1
EDIT: cryogenic, i just read that you have the same fork i have. the MZ COMP. it bottoms out just on little 4 stairs and i want to do this 7 stair at my school but im worried about the fork. i weigh more than 20 pounds less than you and i bottom out? i put the preload all the way up but it hardy makes a difference and still bottoms out.
EDIT: cryogenic, i just read that you have the same fork i have. the MZ COMP. it bottoms out just on little 4 stairs and i want to do this 7 stair at my school but im worried about the fork. i weigh more than 20 pounds less than you and i bottom out? i put the preload all the way up but it hardy makes a difference and still bottoms out.
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12-17-04, 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by javajumper
I'm 12 years old
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Originally Posted by Raiyn
And too young to legally be here
12-17-04, 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Dirtbike
i weigh around 110 and im 14 and i bottom out my 100mm zokey. im looking at the Z1
EDIT: cryogenic, i just read that you have the same fork i have. the MZ COMP. it bottoms out just on little 4 stairs and i want to do this 7 stair at my school but im worried about the fork. i weigh more than 20 pounds less than you and i bottom out? i put the preload all the way up but it hardy makes a difference and still bottoms out.
EDIT: cryogenic, i just read that you have the same fork i have. the MZ COMP. it bottoms out just on little 4 stairs and i want to do this 7 stair at my school but im worried about the fork. i weigh more than 20 pounds less than you and i bottom out? i put the preload all the way up but it hardy makes a difference and still bottoms out.
12-17-04, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Dirtbike
haha youre right. but hey if you were 12 when the internet was around you'd do it. i did
https://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm
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Originally Posted by Raiyn
hey 12 year old get lost. well beat u up 
getting the site shut down is the last thing we need
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Originally Posted by Dirtbike
hey 12 year old get lost. well beat you up getting the site shut down is the last thing we need
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Originally Posted by Raiyn
(B) making personal information collected from a child by a website or online service directed to children or with actual knowledge that such information was collected from a child, publicly available in identifiable form, by any means including by a public posting, through the Internet, or through...—
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But if the webmaster is made aware that the person is in fact under 13, then there may be possible repercussions.
Sorry kid! Please come back when you make it to 13.
Sorry kid! Please come back when you make it to 13.
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