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Re: Shock Conversion

To: Christopher Palmer <ctp@gbn.org>
Subject: Re: Shock Conversion
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 18:15:31 -0800 (PST)
"I SAID THAT!!!"  ........suddenly the place goes silent

I said that you can buy the rear Spax kit from Faspec for $243.
By your calculation of ~$100 per Spax, the brackets only cost you $40, not
$100 anymore.

Ulix


On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christopher Palmer wrote:

> Wait!  I'm the guy who thought that the brackets with the Spax shocks were
> a rip-off at about $100 for the pair...the 40 dollar mark came in somewhere
> else, I'm still trying to find it in my mail archive.
> 
> It seems to me that if we can find out the parameters of the shock (length,
> travel, rates, etc) we could all go down to the local auto parts store and
> get a nice set of monroes or konis for less than the spax, and the rear
> brackets are simple as pie to make (or have made) and were rolling...(I
> miss Gabriel Striders!)
> 
> Now I wonder though about conversions at all.  I'd like to hear more from
> those who have tried tube shocks and switched back to levers, and why.
> 
> Trying to get the most info possible (I DON'T want to repeat the 'great
> silicone brake fluid disaster of Pleasant Hill' again!)
> 
> CTP
> At 12:42 PM -0800 1/7/98, John J. Peloquin wrote:
> >Just a note to say I have been running a rear tube shock conversion on my 67
> >"B" for about 2 years and it works great.
> >Chris Palmer is correct in saying that for about $40 and 2 hours work you
> >can do the conversion.
> 
> 
> 

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
                                                           '67 Sprite


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