Front fork springs question

[Skateguy50]

So did the seals on the 80 850G and found the springs to have pretty much no life left in them, figured everyone upgrades to progressive lets see what they cost. Not to bad at about $95 the set but if stock worked 30 years ago lets compare. I saw them on the local deal fiche for $15 each and though wow what a difference, after a phone call the quoted me $45 each and said they could not get them anyways.

Can you look at this and see if I am comparing apples to apples...

http://www.greaterbostonmotorsports.com/fiche_section_detail.asp?section=95191&category=Motorcycles&make=SUZUKI&year=1980&fveh=2142

Progressive Springs replaces part number 16 on that right?

thanks

[Steve]

Yep, part #16 is what you want.

As far as the apples vs oranges: the springs might have been $15 when they were last available.
I checked a couple other sites, they don't even show up in the fiche, meaing they are no longer available.

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[hikermikem]

Hey Jared,

You can get Progressives cheaper than $95... i just bought a set for my 1100EX for around $65, plus shipping. Let me find the site I bought them from & I'll post it...

how was your ride yesterday?? did you get out

[hikermikem]

Hey Jared,

You can get Progressives cheaper than $95... i just bought a set for my 1100EX for around $65, plus shipping. Let me find the site I bought them from & I'll post it...

http://www.powersportsuperstore.com/

Not a very user friendly site, but the prices seem good - best to call them if you can't find items for your particular bike.

mike

[Jason the terminator]

http://www.powersportsuperstore.com/

Not a very user friendly site, but the prices seem good - best to call them if you can't find items for your particular bike.

mike

I look up the part number on another site and put it in the search box. They have had the lowest prices on everything I have look for except tires and they will price match.

[Skateguy50]

thanks for the information, never got out to ride until about 8pm last night taking the 650 home. the 850 still has a few safety things to get done, like the springs and has a brake that seems to be dragging but i the pile of parts looks like whats needed to rebuild an extra set of calipers, so will see if I can sort it out and do that from the extras or just start with a good flush of the current system and see how that does. Basically i checked in and no one really planning to make it so we wrenched most of the day again.

wow did the site suck for looking up parts or even searching... I looked it up on flatoutmotorcycles.com and then searched for the progressive shock. It was $92 at flatout and $61 at the site you gave me with free shipping, lets see how long till I get them.

[cowboyup3371]

thanks for the information, never got out to ride until about 8pm last night taking the 650 home. the 850 still has a few safety things to get done, like the springs and has a brake that seems to be dragging but i the pile of parts looks like whats needed to rebuild an extra set of calipers, so will see if I can sort it out and do that from the extras or just start with a good flush of the current system and see how that does. Basically i checked in and no one really planning to make it so we wrenched most of the day again.

wow did the site suck for looking up parts or even searching... I looked it up on flatoutmotorcycles.com and then searched for the progressive shock. It was $92 at flatout and $61 at the site you gave me with free shipping, lets see how long till I get them.

Would you definitely post that please? I need to get new ones for mine and if they come in at close to the same price I'll use them.

[mike_of_bbg]

PSSS's free shipping works a lot like Amazon's - if you take the free shipping it's going to take them a few days to ship it. My chain & sprocket took two days to ship; shocks and springs took 5.

[hikermikem]

Would you definitely post that please? I need to get new ones for mine and if they come in at close to the same price I'll use them.

see post #4.

Shipping time wasn't unreasonable, but not lighting fast either... they did send an e-mail with tracking info once shipped.

[salty_monk]

Sonic springs seem to be getting good reviews these days...

The poor mans mod is to cut 3-4" off the spring & replace it with a solid spacer.