I seem to only be getting around 65mm travel out of my supposed 100mm RockShox Rebas. That seems rather short - anyone know what I should expect to get out of them?
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100mm
You should be getting near as dammit 100mm maybe 90mm taking into account 10mm of negative(?) travel.
I'm guessing these are the dual air version. If so maybe too much negative air pressure can reign in the travel.
If not and are coil - too heavier a spring ?
Can you get full travel out of them with no air in?
If not you either have too much oil in the damper chamber
or
one of the seals on the seals that separtes the damper chamber and lower legs has 'blown' allowing oil into the lowers and causing a hydraulic lock before the fork reaches full travel.
As they say above, remove all air from both chambers and try again:
Some forks have only 80mm of travel and you need to fiddle with spacers:
See here:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/changing-the-travel-on-reba-forks
After doing this I've still got problems, I think with one of the seals as on taking them apart again I had a lot of oil in the lower chamber, so they're off to get serviced.
Yes these are the dual chamber air jobbies. I tried deflating the forks, and even deflated I am getting the same short travel.
So thanks for the replies chaps - good suggestions. It sounds like I'd better investigate further.
Give me a shout for any advice, parts/service e.t.c 😉
Cant they be adjusted internally for travel by using the spacers? Mine are set longer than i really want them. Mine need a service and new bushes and it pains me to pay £130 incl postage to get it done when they only cost me £200
Sounds like hydraulic lockout. Pretty common. All the damping oil in the right leg will be in the lowers instead of the damping cartridge. if you've got a lock out another symptom will be this isn't working. Stuffed seal in the right leg.