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Re: Fork Oil - what weight are you using?

To: "Ulix Goettsch" <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Fork Oil - what weight are you using?
From: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:58:59 +1000
Cc: <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>, <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Reply-to: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
I've been using it for years. I tried Penrite's lever arm shock oil #2 but
it wasn't
stiff enough so I went back to 30wt or 40wt fork oil (road and race
respectively).

No complaints and possibly better fade resistance (it seems so but I don't
have objective measurements)

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
To: Agustin de la Calle <agustin@risotto.mit.edu>
Cc: jpquinn@cyberramp.net <jpquinn@cyberramp.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, April 17, 1998 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: Fork Oil - what weight are you using?


>OK, none of you fork oil guys has commented on the results of switching to
>the stuff...
>(Now someone is going to say "the shocks got stiffer"...)
>
>Ulix
>
>On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Agustin de la Calle wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 jpquinn@cyberramp.net wrote:
>>
>> > I bought a bottle of Belray 30WT from a
>> > suszuki dealer.  Cost about $9.50 for one pint.
>>
>> That will last you maybe couple of years.
>>
>> Gus
>> '71 Midget
>>
>
>    Ulix                                                    __/__,__
>.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
>                                                           '67 Sprite
>


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