There's been some debate on here and elsewhere about stanchion wear on Fox forks. Having just heard from Mojo and paid for my service I thought I was in a reasonable position to share my positive experience, because, shock, horror THERE WAS NO MENTION OF STANCHION WEAR.
I've been running a set of 07 36 Float Rs from new. First fitted to a Giant VT in January 08, run for a few hours before I decide to reduce the travel from 160 to 130mm, which I did myself. I used the bike for I guess on average about 2-3 hours actual riding (rather than pushing up, drinking tea, eating cake etc.) per week for all of 2008 come rain or shine. I started storing my bike upsidedown in autumn 2008 after a friend suggested this would be a good idea.
In January this year the forks were transferred to a Cannondale Prophet and my weekly usage increased to more like 4-5 hours. A couple of weeks ago I noticed a bit of wetness on the LH (air) leg, this coupled with the increasingly noticable bush wear prompted the service. The only maintenance I ever performed other than the upsidedown storage was to wipe down the stanchions after every ride and then maybe every 2 weeks put a couple of drops of fork oil on the stanchions, let it wet out onto the seals, cycle a couple of times and wipe clean. I never even lifted the seals.
Admittedly 95% of my riding has been in the South East where its not really very gritty, and is the 'ride fast downhill for 2 minutes then push back up' type of thing, but it looks like my forks have survived 18 months and over 200 hours use unscathed other than acceptable wear and tear.
ps in the peak district.
