fork oil change discovery...FWIW

Maybe everybody knew this but me re putting new oil in the forks...

Yesterday I changed the fork oil. In the past I had always bemoaned the time it took to pour new fork oil into the tubes - seemed to take forever. Even the manual states that it can take some time.

With the forks springs exposed and the bike down on the front suspension with the springs sticking well up out of the tubes, I discovered that if I put the new oil in a glass measuring cup, put the tip of the pour spout against the spring itself and held the spring so it was centered in the tube - so that the coils weren't touching the top edge of the tube - I was able to fill a fork in about 30 seconds. The oil just flows between the coils and down into the tube. Basically, the spring coils/center rod act almost like a funnel.

As I said, this was a new discovery for me. If it's old news for everyone else, I apologize.

A job worth dreading, but should be done every 2 or 3 years or even annually depending on your yearly mileage.

I use an old pump style oiler; it shoots the oil in, in less then 2 minutes.