Thread: fork bottom out
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Old June 20th, 2018, 07:31 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Triple Jim View Post
That's a good idea of course, but depending on how much oil is in there, they may not actually go that far when they're together. I'm not sure if anyone actually runs that much oil though.

I do know that when I got my 250, I could bottom the fork pretty easily with a very hard stop. After installing Sonic springs and putting the amount of oil Sonic recommends in, I can't bottom them, or even get very close to bottoming by using the brake, and it's not just the different springs causing that.
I'm running PJ-1 15 weight fork oil and I can't imagine bottoming my forks. But then I don't do "stopies" either.

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