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I have an '09 that's my daily rider and the forks (w/ 30mm NIX cartridges) were chip free and perfectly fine until about 1000 miles ago when I replaced the brake pads with a "different" brand of HH sintered pads.
The front wheel fender has a cut-out so the spinning rotor is right next to the fork tube and the entire fork tube facing the rotor has literally hundreds of little chips. I attached a picture of just the outer part. It's much worse on the side directly facing the rotor and fork tube is unscathed on the side facing away from the rotor.
No it's not just debris when I try to wipe it off each little rust spot has a bit of missing chrome underneath.
Does anyone have any experience replacing just the fork tubes? I see some on eBay for $150 but it's some Chinese knockoff. It's an ABS bike so it's even harder to find a pair of OEM forks with the hole for the wheel speed sensor.
For the price of OEM fork tubes I figured I may as well sell the cartridges and get the Ohlins forks but they only have one for the 2012-2016 models. Since the wheel seems to be the same part number what exactly do I need to modify/swap out to get it working on the 2009?
The front wheel fender has a cut-out so the spinning rotor is right next to the fork tube and the entire fork tube facing the rotor has literally hundreds of little chips. I attached a picture of just the outer part. It's much worse on the side directly facing the rotor and fork tube is unscathed on the side facing away from the rotor.
No it's not just debris when I try to wipe it off each little rust spot has a bit of missing chrome underneath.
Does anyone have any experience replacing just the fork tubes? I see some on eBay for $150 but it's some Chinese knockoff. It's an ABS bike so it's even harder to find a pair of OEM forks with the hole for the wheel speed sensor.
For the price of OEM fork tubes I figured I may as well sell the cartridges and get the Ohlins forks but they only have one for the 2012-2016 models. Since the wheel seems to be the same part number what exactly do I need to modify/swap out to get it working on the 2009?
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