I recently had a spang on my Cove and took a slight chunk out of the anodising on the leg of my Revelations.  They seem to be working OK for now, but I reckon it will damage the seals before long so have been looking at replacing the fork.

Seems there are some good offers on the 426 Coil U-Turn at the mo (mine are the 426 air) but I can’t seem to find any information anywhere about the weight of the spring that comes as standard – even on the SRAM site.

I’m 13 stone + riding gear, does anyone know if the standard spring would suit?  No point buying a £230 fork ‘cos it’s cheap and then having to stump up for a new spring as well.

Cheers.

i got the coil and works fine for me @ 11st or about 12st fully loaded 

 link below might help,once downloaded press arrow at top of page to page 2

http://www.sram.com/_media/pdf/service/coil_spring_chart.pdf

Hmmm.  Interesting that Cwm.  According to the chart, someone of my mass is on the border of the blue & black spring (the 2 heaviest) but 2 similar size riders use the red. 

Additionally, the chart on the air forks which uses similar rider weight brackets and recommended psi is way out.  I run my air fork a lot softer than the recommendation, so I reckon the standard spring may do the trick.

Whilst on the subject, it there any way of preloading the coil in these forks or not, given it's a U-Turn?

Cheers guys.

i didnt say i knew what i was on about 4Am

just searhed for info,so heres some more,and no,i dont know what preload is,but these guys do,if i could understand wtf they are on about

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=407839

I used to have the rs psylo's and upgraded them to the heavier spring.  It was way to heavy for me tbh and made them too firm for me.

On my rs recons i have poplock fitted and the poplock lever has adjustment for compression damping which tbh is a load of gumph.  I either have them full bouncy or fully locked for roads.  With mine at 130mm travel i prob sag to about 100-105mm and have no trouble with getting full travel.  I have never had any kind of bottoming out incident either.

Just for info, mine are in a poor now after 18mths.  I didnt open them up for a clean untill 14mths had passed and by that time the stanchions were in a bad state. The seals hold the oil but they are gradually wearing the stanchion down.  The seals cost about £35 and a service is about £70.  I only paid £150 for them so figure that if i get another 12mths out of them i will be evens.  What i am saying is that its a piece of piss to open them up and clean them out every few months for very little cost.  If i had known i would have done so.  Also, they are still working very well even in their bad state because they are coil.  If they were air i imagine they would be dead already

Dunno if it's too late, but try them with the stock spring first, I'm the same weight and on the border between std and firm(blue) spring, tried mates revs in the car park and they felt fine, also when I test rided my bike the other night after rebuild with coil pikes, the forks stayed at 17% sag (120mm) whilst riding the bike on a bumpy lane, and generally felt right, not too soft.

Will report back monday after my first peaks ride on them tomorrow...

i'd have a go at filling/ polishing out the scratch first...

rub any sharp edges off..

 make a mix of araldite up 

 spread it into the scratch making it ever so slightly proud

 leave 24 hrs.

 wetsand back with some FINE emery paper P1500- 3000 

finish with a rubbing compound

what have you got to loose?? 

Aye, I'll keep you posted 4am.

Riding this saturday, so maybe will be able to give 'em a workout then.

yes it will but only slightly its the same way you'd repair a scratch in your cars paint work after all your looking into buying a new set of forks. the fine paper im refering to is finer than any paper ive ever used before its almost smooth The araldite should cut back faster than the anodising anyway as it'll be softer..

Use a good mix of soap and water and check regularly that you arn't removing too much annodising then remove any slight marring of the surface with something like scratch X on a microfiber cloth..

2500 grit

polish

something like this

Monkey

I have just purchased a set of coil Lyriks for my Orange 5 and love em. Doesnt mess the geometry up at all and the uturn and motion control make them a really versatile fork.

I too had a few concerns about the std spring. Fully kitted I am about 200 lbs way beyond the recommended weight for the std spring. Set to full travel 160mm i get 40mm of sag (25%), when turned down to 130mm of travel i get about 30mm of sag ( under 25%). my local bike shop said that was about right. They feel quite soft and do not dive or run through the travel, although this might change as they bed in.

I think I am going to leave things as they are as I have not bottomed them out and still have plenty of travel in reserve even at 130mm. The low speed compression damping on the mission control also keeps things nice and steady when it turns steep and technical.

I would reccommend these forks to anyone, I know some may regard them as heavy but I changed from Fox Float 130mm and i honestly cant feel any weight penalty.