Gotama Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 About to embark on another VFR upgrade Suspension If you’ve done the research you’ll know that are very few options for the fork upgrades Contacted a friend of mine with GP suspension and will be designing some 20mil cartridges just another option other then Traxxion , Andreani , Race tech revalves ect or BD-20’s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotama Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 Ok we then that was short lived not only do they not make one they aren’t gonna ever make one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotama Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 So I ended up ordering the Andreani fork cartages ….. just installed them yesterday I sure hope I did everything correctly . the forks haven’t been serviced in years so this was well overdue . the install manual didn’t go into great detail on installing them , but I think I figured it out . new bushings and seals were done also along with a thorough cleaning of the lower forks and stanchions . only thing is I’m kinda lost track of which one was rebound and which one was compression if I got them backwards that’s a simple cap swap and there was one part I needed to swap from the stock forks to the new cartages that wasn’t outlined in the instructions, the round piece that slides in under the nut on the tube that holds the spring down . So far from what I can tell just off of setting the adjustments based off of how fast it rebounds and compresses the bike feels more planted on the road . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotama Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 I’m thinking I screwed something up so that spacer under the Nut I left that in and screwed down the cap . can someone confirm this ? something tells me I should have screwed the cap down and tightened that nut up to the cap and let the black piece back up to the bottom of the cap . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotama Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 Well since this thread is so active figure I’d update and let everyone know that I did indeed have a part that wasn’t needed installed but hey makes a great tool if I want or need to swap springs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoyer Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 Just reading through this for the first time and I’m curious. Are there different parts (amount of pieces or what ever) comparing to the amount of stock pieces parts? I’ve been pondering doing the forks on my bike and wonder if the factory manual would show the basic “same” items for assembly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotama Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 2 hours ago, trmoyer said: Just reading through this for the first time and I’m curious. Are there different parts (amount of pieces or what ever) comparing to the amount of stock pieces parts? I’ve been pondering doing the forks on my bike and wonder if the factory manual would show the basic “same” items for assembly? Well I for some reason though a spacer off the stock forks , which I used as a tool at first to hold down the spring and tighten the cap onto the new cartages, remained there and I slapped it all together with the retainer disk in place . So this morning I removed the caps and dropped the front , removed the disk and put it back the way it’s suppose to be comparing the two there seems to be less parts with the Andreani cartridges this disk here was on the stock suspension and was on top of the stock spacer tube so I thought it needed to go back I was wrong lol but it made for a great tool to hold the spring down and install the fork caps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoyer Posted June 26, 2022 Share Posted June 26, 2022 There’s always so much to learn with these things then someone goes and throws a curve ball in there lol. I’m following this along to see how it all plays out. The Andreani cartridge kit might be out of my budget range for now but I like seeing the options that are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotama Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 It’s pretty straight forward as far as installing them I went the extra step and re did the bushings and seals while I was at it and cleaned everything . the cartages so far feel fantastic front end feel more planted and I can adjust rebound and preload and dampening . like my track bike . the stock ones I had cranked all the way down i wanted more adjustability then all the way Stiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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