Hi,
living in the dusty Alentejo, southern Portugal, on a budget that leaves precious little to spare for the bikes I'd like to have, I recently took over the care of a friend's semi-abandoned 1997 Voodoo Erzulie. Lovely bike actually, great geometry, perfect fit, but rusty cheapo components and a fork that resembles riding a piece of wet string. While I raise the cash to build my next dream bike, this one does perfectly well – except for that fork, Suntour MG90, looks like it was never a great fork, but since the elastomers have turned to bread over the years, it needs something to make it bearable.
Any ideas on zero-cost elastomer replacements ??? Really, it's against my principles to throw away more than a couple of Euros here in the knowledge that at best it was a cheap fork in its heyday, and that's long past…
It's a spring/elastomer fork, looks like the missing parts were originally four 30mm lengths of 19mm diameter elastomer. I dropped in a few random springs from the parts box, but can't say I was very impressed with the result. Any ideas for an improvement ?
Looking forward to finding a similar frame I can call my own and start to build up… anyone selling a 19.5 inch voodoo (cheap) ?