Rock Shox Fork travel

[Bo Lind]

Hi,

I recently bought a used Rock Shox fork. The previous owner has spray
painted it a tactical army green, he claims it's a 2003 Pilot SL, which
makes somewhat sense, as it has an aluminum steerer, a valve for adjusting
air pressure on the top of the left leg, and rebound control at the bottom
of the right leg. Actually he claimed it was a 2002, but Rock Shox made no
such fork in 2002, so it must be 2003, or not a Pilot.

Now, what I don't get, is the travel. According to my measurements, it has
58mm of travel, with no apparent negative travel. According to spec, it
should have either 80 or 100mm, depending on the placement of a pair of
spacers inside the fork legs.

Anyone have some insight here? It has a disc mount, chrome stanchions and
black painted crown. I think it is black underneath the green paint. The
legs are totally smooth, no profiled name (wouldn't be asking if it said
something, now would I...;)

The reason I ask is because I think the travel might be a little on the low
side (building up a bike for a friend), but I don't have the knowhow,
experience or cojones to take it apart.

Thanks in advance.

Bo

[shiver]

Bo Lind wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a used Rock Shox fork. The previous owner has spray
> painted it a tactical army green, he claims it's a 2003 Pilot SL, which
> makes somewhat sense, as it has an aluminum steerer, a valve for adjusting
> air pressure on the top of the left leg, and rebound control at the bottom
> of the right leg. Actually he claimed it was a 2002, but Rock Shox made no
> such fork in 2002, so it must be 2003, or not a Pilot.

Hi, I'm sorry I can't help you, but would you be so kind to send me a photo
of this fork? I'm a bit courious of the paintjob he made on that fork! =)

Thanks, bye!

[Bo Lind]

shiver wrote:
> Hi, I'm sorry I can't help you, but would you be so kind to send me a
> photo of this fork? I'm a bit courious of the paintjob he made on that
> fork! =)

Hi,

I don't own a digital camera, so I can't send you a picture, but I can give
you a bit of information.

It is just the fork legs that are painted. He did it himself with some paint
he bought in a store catering to grafiti-painters, it just came in a
pressurized can. It is sort of a matte green, looks very army-ish. He
sandpapered the original surface a little bit with some extremely fine
grained sandpaper, as to make tha paint stick, and so far it looks good,
and doesn't chip and such.
He didn't disassemble the fork, just covered up the vital bits with masking
tape and went to work.

He had also painted his entire frame the same color.

Bo