Old 01-28-22, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Drillium Dude

I did notice something that may support the idea that the fork is a replacement (but for what reason I don't know - certainly not because of a crash or there'd be some evidence on the frame): the bit of a gap between the headset lock nut and the spacer. Either a different headset with a taller stack height was originally used, or this fork is a replacement and a few millimeters longer than the original one. But again, pure speculation.

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That's all me. I pulled it apart last night to clean the old grease and put it back together loosely to wash it (hoping to keep most of the water out of the frame). Now that it's clean, I'll go through and relube every bearing and pivot point and set the freeplay on the headset, bb, hubs etc..
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