Originally Posted by ViperZ
So what the heck ever happened to good old Rubber Accordion Fork Boots?
Did they just fall out of fashion? Or did they create other problems?
I have an old Rock Shox Judy XC with them, and the stanchions still look like new because of the boots.
Exactly...you have an old Judy like I do. Back when Judy's and then SID's weighed 2.7-3.5 lbs they had them. Then they started over engineering the forks with all this big hop, big bounce, big landing, big travel and the forks got so darned heavy they took the boots off so they weren't all over 6 lbs. Have a fleet of older Judy SL's pre disc and won't ever give them up.