the 15 hours service thing is ridiculous though.
Depends if you consider cleaning your bike a service I suppose ;).
I’d suspect you’d clean a chain more often than every 15 hours of riding … chains are somewhat cheaper and more of a PITA to clean than what TLR suggests:
here’s the solution for pain free fox ownership.
1. keep wiper seals and stanchions clean after EVERY ride.
2. store upside down when not riding.
sorted.
Do this and you probably wont need to do the 15 hour service. Although long rides in the Peaks or gritty muddy places and it makes sense to increase the frequency your maintenance routines. But that’s the same for everything right? Brake pads, chains, jockey wheels, pivot bearings, cassette etc etc
Dry stanchions with dirty wipers and dirty oil would eat a fork up very quickly (as would a dry chain covered in grit)
Fox service schedules