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Message: [QUOTE="canyncarvr, post: 1018434, member: 16552"] re: 'The more spring the better..' Suited me! re: 'ANY spring will only compress so much..' Uhhhhh.....yep. re: 'If your forks were ten feet tall and you had a 3 meter-ish spring, it still would only compress 290mm' Yep again. But that's not the direction he (Bailey) wants to go. He wants to [b]change[/b] from a 10' fork/3 meter spring to a 10' fork/[b]6 meter[/b] spring. You're welcome to argue otherwise and welcome to run any spring you like. Heck..put in a 24" steel spacer and a 12" long spring if you like. It appears senseless to me to take something that is supposed to house a spring (a fork tube) and fill it full of steel tubing spacer. Besides, the proof of the pudding being in the eating and all...my OEM fork suspension improved greatly with a change from OEM length to a .38 XR/longer spring. Nope. Not everyone that has tried it likes it. They're welcome to not. I don't ride their bike. ;) Don't bother asking Mr. Fredette. Anything I've read concerning his choice in spring is to run the 470mm with a long spacer. The spring diameters are listed on the RaceTech site (for one place anyway). Knowing the diameter you're after, you should be able to come up with most any length you want...who cares what make/model/year it's listed as fitting. Example: The longer XR spring in the KDX fork will give you little room if you're interested in running a small preload spacer. But, you can get the same diameter spring for a Yamaha that is 10mm shorter than the XR spring. There 'ya go! If nothing else, call someone like Mr. Wilkey (MX-Tech), tell them you want (as an example) a 46mm diameter spring that is 515mm long with a .42 rate. Yeah...I wouldn't be happy with a shorter spring than what I started with, either. Not where I got mine...but I've heard of a number of KDXers getting their XR springs (used) from a thumpertalker. Usually pretty darn cheap, too. Good luck!! BTW... My OEM KDX springs were around 470mm in length. My XR springs were 520mm or so. [/QUOTE]

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