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Posted: **Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:34 pm**

Can anyone suggest a suitable grade/or fork oil to use on my H2c??
Cant seem to find a listing for it in any of the books I have...typical

of how my day as gone today !!!
Thanks,
dc

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:24 am**

Motul - Road and Off Road Fork Oil Expert.

Medium/Heavy 15W :smt023

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:57 pm**

Bit pessimistic recommending OFF road fork oil ?

15w seems a bit heavy too. ( Or am I being Fattist .....)

10w. Any make . Choose it by the pretty colour of the bottle .

And then just make sure you have tyre at right pressure.............

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:35 pm**

Neil the Don wrote:Bit pessimistic recommending OFF road fork oil ?

15w seems a bit heavy too. ( Or am I being Fattist .....)

10w. Any make . Choose it by the pretty colour of the bottle .

And then just make sure you have tyre at right pressure.............

15W improves the damping a bit, it makes the front end behave like summat from the 80's... plus I'm running twin discs so it reduces dive a bit as well

Depends how you want to ride I suppose, poncing about looking at yourself in shop windows, you'd probably get away with chip oil...

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:39 pm**

Yeah. Who looks at their reflection in shop windows !!

Let's hope you don't wheelie with 15w oil and a heavier twin disc front wheel. Recipe for blown fork seals .

Posted: **Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:43 pm**

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:53 am**

Neil the Don wrote: Let's hope you don't wheelie with 15w oil and a heavier twin disc front wheel. Recipe for blown fork seals .

Surely the opposite would apply. Heavier damping, slower compression, slower increase in air pressure in forks?

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:32 am**

Mitsui Spy wrote:
Neil the Don wrote: Let's hope you don't wheelie with 15w oil and a heavier twin disc front wheel. Recipe for blown fork seals .
Surely the opposite would apply. Heavier damping, slower compression, slower increase in air pressure in forks?

That's what I thought (know...) :smt023

Anyway, I'm too old for wheelies........

Posted: **Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:36 pm**

Mitsui Spy wrote:
Surely the opposite would apply. Heavier damping, slower compression, slower increase in air pressure in forks?

Hmm .... now I'm not so sure. I was looking at an early fork design where the pressure chamber seems to be remote from the seals. I'll defer to Neil's wealth of experience on this. I expect he'd know.

Posted: **Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:57 am**

stevie747 wrote: Depends how you want to ride I suppose, poncing about looking at yourself in shop windows, you'd probably get away with chip oil...

I've been using a new go-faster Chinese chip oil - "Flying tonight"

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Fork oil - recomendations ???

Fork oil - recomendations ???