runnyeggsham

Forum Replies Created

Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)
  • Replies
  • runnyeggsham
    Member
    Thanks Mix! I will try it out this weekend or this week if I have time. I have midterms this week and next. Not much time to play with the bike. I dont want it to break down.
    I didnt take off the allen screws but I did screw it all the way either cw or ccw and the shocks actually grew in length. There was no compression or anything. I screwed it the other direction and it got back to being almost a pancake….not quite but close enough. I’ll keep you updated.

    The last resort is to get some new elastomers from that place that also sells on Ebay I guess. $49 flat. Almost as much as I paid for the bike at 75.

    runnyeggsham
    Member
    @neo_pop_71 wrote:

    My Manitou 2 forks were bottomed out and wasted, so I gutted them and installed the Wing’s “hard/hard” spring kit (the same that Mixalive spoke about), basically making mine into some sweet rigid BMX forks. The Manitou forks are the same as the Answer BMX fork but with rigid fork tubes. I made my own and saved a couple hundred dollars on a set of Answer BMX forks… sweet! They are on the 26″ BMX that I’m building right now.

    Yes, the Wings Springs company is gone. News is all over MTBR, they still take your money but you never get your product. The website is mostly down. The videos on youtube have been set to private.

    • October 16, 2012 at 4:55 am
    • in reply to: ’93 A2E
    runnyeggsham
    Member
    Nice bike. I saw your blog. I just got mine 2 weeks ago too. Your shocks look like mine. Flat as a pancake almost….a little spring left but barely. :(
    runnyeggsham
    Member
    @mixalive wrote:

    I just wasn’t sure if the velcro strap was compressing the forks.
    Here is a picture of my Manitou 4. It is riding a little high (3/8″) because it has a Wings spring conversion and is sprung. But subtract what you see in gold and that would be the normal unsprung height of an elastomer Manitou 4. It looks to me that you have an elastomer issue.

    I see what you mean. Mine is really compressed. I didn’t even notice to be honest. Man it looks awful compared to yours.

    runnyeggsham
    Member
    @mixalive wrote:

    Welcome to the forum.. Nice bike.
    So, the image on the carrier: Is your Manitou 4 cinched up (compressed) with that strap? If the fork normally sits that low on the ground, you may have an elastomer issue. Honestly it looks bottomed out.

    Yes, it does sit that low to the ground. What do you mean compressed by the strap? Nothing is holding it down on my bike rack besides some velcro on the frame that keeps it in place when hanging on the rack.

    I don’t know what height the shocks are supposed to be. I was told that it was tuned recently and it rides fine (for a newbie). The shocks still go down when I push down on it or jumping a curve on campus. What is an elastomer.
    Thank you.

    runnyeggsham
    Member
    Thanks for the welcome and info everyone.

    And yes, it does say Tree Amigos! Along with the original owner’s name, although I am not sure if this was factory or not. It’s etched in dot matrix! Talk about vintage!

    Anyway, I have Gary Fisher Tassajarra too. But that one is in similar condition, maybe a little newer and I dont want to lose that one either. So I take the cuda and lock up the frame with a REI Bulldog Ulock and chain the wheels end to end. The seat is a crappy Bell.

    runnyeggsham
    Member
    No, I just loosened that one bolt. Doh! I didn’t think those side ones would be necessary.

    But here are some more pictures. I mounted it on my car. I like the bike a lot. One of my professors saw me cutting through the grass and remarked that maybe he should bring his bike too and bike around campus instead of walking.

    The bike is nice enough where I just ride it around campus at the end of the day at night and unwind.

Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)