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Phillip Graham at SoPro Suspension.
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Enduro Engineering Suspension did the fork and shock on my 250 and it works great.
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Mine had to be re-anodized, and I'm real anal about the clamps and alignment. Love the action with proper setup but not impressed with the durability. I hope the 48s are better in this respect.
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Brent. You and I should'nt be so negative! on the possitive side ,lack of quality components make those forks weigh much less than the competitions.
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LMAO. Well, they are .5 lbs lighter than my WP's. My 11 GG 300 EC weighs 256's with 1 gallon of gas in it and Shoria battery. So 255 is a safe bet. I wonder if they put lead panels inside the frame?
OK, I will stop being negative. My only two complaints about this bike have been the forks and the e start. It works 25% of the time. Coming from KTM recently, I did have Honda's, Kawasaki's, and Yamaha's too, this bike is hard to work on. KTM's are so freaking easy. Oh well, the handling, motor, and tranny, are sweet. There, I mentioned some positive! Yay. |
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I tell people, who ask, to buy the GG and see how the forks work for them. I explain that they may need springs and a revalve but it should NOT be something that prevents them from giving this bike a shot. All BS aside I am glad I did it and have some experience now with GG. It opened me up to bikes outside the KTM regime. If you have a suspension guy with experience in Marzocchi forks you will be fine. They are super simple to work on and should not be expensive to re-shim etc. |
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Well, I certainly didn't expect to stir up so many people with my original post.
I'm new to Gas Gas bikes but have raced off road for more than 40 years. Although now older (64) and admittedly slower than I used to be I still retain the ability to evaluate suspension performance accurately. These are not state of the art forks, but.... they should be able to be reworked by a knowledgeable suspension guy to work better. Thanks to all the people who pointed out what the internals consist of. I didn't have a clue what was in there. All I did was pop off the cap, put in heavier springs and button it back up. Sounds like basic valving stacks etc. I'm going to have Matt Stavish at Checkpoint Offroad in Scandia, Minnesota work on my forks. I've known Matt for several years from the races we both went to. You may remember Matt as a former factory Gas Gas rider and ISDE guy. He told me he had experience reworking zoke forks and could make them better. |
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There are thousands of these forks in service on GGs, Huskys, and others. They work awesome in the woods when set up right. I think Brent, being a fast desert guy, is a little out of the box as far as the bikes scope with regard to OEM setup. I completely understand this as its not setup as a desert bike, and no doubt a stiffer CC fork (perhaps the new 48s?) would be much closer. However, for the average to even fast woods rider these are very ridable stock and eaisly tuned.
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