How to lower a pike 454

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Dec 21, 2008

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rambikesjerseybikes (Dec 22, 2008 at 9:39)

can u do bomers as well

fread (Dec 22, 2008 at 14:59)

no, sorry, never tried with them

momojellydonut (Aug 13, 2009 at 22:35)

why the hell are you useing a mexican wrence, get a real one

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kinkos9090 (Dec 29, 2008 at 1:59)

nice job could i do that with rock shox toras

fread (Dec 29, 2008 at 8:34)

i dunno, maybe if its the same internal

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aron-24seven (Dec 30, 2008 at 6:28)

if its a u turn forks cnt u just u tht to make thm smaller?? or is it smaller thn 90mm??

fread (Dec 30, 2008 at 9:57)

what ?.....

i'll answer the question i understood; the pike 454 air is 110mm, so you can't get lower than that if you dont drop your travel

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k2dan (Dec 30, 2008 at 17:12)

rockshox are the best to repair and disassembly did mi lyrik and its as essez as they come
good to see the how too
thx

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aron-24seven (Dec 31, 2008 at 8:54)

ahh a get ya. a thought they were 90 mm to 140 u turn and if u wanted less thn 90 u need to lower them. i get ya now Big Grin

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Michielo (Feb 28, 2009 at 5:58)

Do you know how I lower my pike 454 coil? thnx

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frank-dave (Apr 18, 2009 at 1:42)

haha the shadow when your pumping at 330.0

fread (Apr 18, 2009 at 17:34)

ahahahahahahahahaha

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NaturalBIKER (May 20, 2009 at 2:09)

so mabe a weird question but can you also raise a fork??

fread (May 20, 2009 at 3:54)

yeah, but the max will still be 140mm

NaturalBIKER (May 21, 2009 at 3:36)

ok thx.

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bigbrown (May 26, 2009 at 6:45)

what kind of spacer you need??

fread (May 26, 2009 at 12:27)

i dont know if you can use like a piece of a old handle bar, i didnt tried because i was afraid of using the internal si i used some hose seal like theses

the principle is to get the piston further from the end of the cylinder ( nearer from the top of the fork if you prefer)

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bigbrown (May 26, 2009 at 15:24)

thanks

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sebastianj (May 26, 2009 at 21:09)

can you do this to a marzocchi 55r ¿¿¿¿???????

fread (May 26, 2009 at 21:28)

i've never tried, i can't tell, and i dont own any marzo.... but i guess its the same for almost all marzo fork Wink

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finleym (Jun 25, 2009 at 10:32)

will the u turn still work fine??

fread (Jun 25, 2009 at 10:35)

yes it will

finleym (Jun 26, 2009 at 14:09)

oh ill get mine lowered to 70 then thanks

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suicidedownhiller (Jul 3, 2009 at 13:19)

Fread, if I take my pike u-turn model, with 140-95 mm travel u-turn and lower them to...let's say 80 mm, will it now be 80mm to 125 travel adjust?

fread (Jul 3, 2009 at 15:00)

i don't know for the coil but for the air, yes...

my friend has a pike team ( a very old pike ) and to drop its pike we only had to screw a bolt, wich was the uturn... because he couldn't reach less than 95mm because the spring of the fork was tight at this place (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2902236303_fc71393fdd.jpg) so after lowering his fork, he could lower his fork to infinite, but max is 95mm

hope it help'd you!

suicidedownhiller (Jul 3, 2009 at 15:50)

ok, Thank you very much!

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caravanking (Sep 28, 2009 at 15:25)

so do you only do that in one side and leave the u-turn side as it is ???

fread (Sep 28, 2009 at 15:44)

the compression side *

yes you do...
i did step one to final step in that video

caravanking (Sep 29, 2009 at 13:19)

so you dont have to touch the uturn side at all....

fread (Sep 29, 2009 at 14:36)

theCOMPRESSION SIDE

you have to do all that into the uturn side...

caravanking (Sep 29, 2009 at 14:43)

so you only do that to one side yes or no ??? i have dj1 07 and had to do both sides but with dj1 08 only one side is done

fread (Sep 29, 2009 at 14:54)

you do it only on the U-turn side...

caravanking (Sep 30, 2009 at 13:24)

ah righty cheers

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dirtrider-50 (Nov 23, 2009 at 6:17)

Is it possible to lower a pike 409 coil uturn??

fread (Nov 23, 2009 at 16:09)

je n'ai jamais essayé, mais il y a des grosses chances que non. il faudrait ouvrir la fourche et comprendre le méchanisme pour la dropper

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