shocks

[ron9969]

look around on ebay,stock replacement shocks for a smaller jap,quad would work great,i used to see these for like fifty bucks,i bought used ones for my buggy,amazing how people take off really good shocks and sell them.

[the_ripper]

i think ebay is probably my best bet for front shocks as i havnt seen and on the gio auctions for about two weeks. does anyone know why that would be?

[Weldangrind]

Quite frankly, I think that they just auction off whatever arrives in the containers from China. Sometimes we get lucky.

[w00t]

I've been out of the loop on these shocks but did they change them? I have a set of the performance ones but the springs are red. From what I'm gathering and reading the black ones are stiffer?

[waynev]

Originally Posted by w00t

I've been out of the loop on these shocks but did they change them? I have a set of the performance ones but the springs are red. From what I'm gathering and reading the black ones are stiffer?

The new ones have black springs, i have both the red and black and while i haven't tested them they feel about the same spring rate although the black springed ones feel softer on my beast then the red springed ones on my T1, it might be the mounting angle though.

[w00t]

Ahh... thanks for the info. I thought I saw a thread on here commenting on how the black ones are stiffer, but I figured it was just a new look.

[TurboT]

Originally Posted by w00t

Ahh... thanks for the info. I thought I saw a thread on here commenting on how the black ones are stiffer, but I figured it was just a new look.

I think there was some concern about the red ones not holding air/nitrogen pressure where the 'new' black springed ones were holding pressure allowing them to be stiffer. If the new batch of red springed one from Gio are holding pressure I'd expect they'd be the same.