I’m closing in on 100 hrs on my new bike after 4 months.  My forks are Suntour’s Air XCR RLO and they recommend dissembling and cleaning at 100 hrs.  I wasn’t expecting a maintenance requirement that was this extensive and this frequent.  I haven’t even price how much it would cost to have a shop to do it, but even at $50, I’m having a hard time justifying not just running the forks to failure.   It seems it would be cheaper as these are about $200 forks.  Then I could replace them with better forks and the cost of those would justify the maintenance cost.

Other option is to learn how to do it myself.  Something I’m up to although I haven’t found a great number of resources on the web and the manufactures don’t seem very supportive with selling the parts needed.

I’m curious what other’s do.  I may post this on another website that isn’t local to get a broader response but did want to see what people do around here.

Learning to maintenance is fork is a relatively basic task and will really save you money if you can do it yourself.  Most forks have relatively similar builds look up a few videos online on forks that are similar to yours (air, coil, etc) and give it a try!  

Found this site, look at the links for changing seals, changing oil and seals is normal maintenance. 

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