Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Lots of suspension forks , after a few years , no longer have support for rebuild parts, so when you really need them, there are none available, any more
so then you have to buy a new fork..
I would also say, in response to why to the guy two messages abo, I bought a Trek Fuel for example, I loved the bike but hated the Rockshox fork, so I bought the bike sold the fork and bought a fox performance fork. Quite often stock, mid range to even high end bikes, still have low end dampered forks (in the performance category) so upgrading makes some sense.