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The Attic -
Attic What IZIT
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 This might be easy for a savy attic verteran so we are going to need a good story to go with it. The winning answer will include the Make, Model and Functionality of the item. Personal experience is worth big bonus points, include some references to aftermarket upgrades or a homemade hop-up for extra credit as well. The winner will receive a $10 Bikeman Gift Certificate. A winner has been found.... Uncle Knobby takes the prize!
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The results have been tabulated and a winner has been found. If you still aren't sure, What It Is, read on.
WINNER - Uncle Knobby: "Why that looks a bit like one of dem durn plastic bodied Judy dampers. I hate dem things. There's a big oil spot on the floor of my former digs in Durango from having one of those come apart when yanking the legs off a Judy. Which I still have, with a still functioning dated-'96 Arlo air spring system. Englund. When my Manitou EFC wears out, that'll go back on the Litespeed. Once when I was visiting Moab, before moved here, I ran in to Maurice from Dirt Rag who was going around to the shops shaking hands and handing out bottles of homebrew (which, as a homebrewer myself, I was surprised to learn recently is Illegal in Wacky Utah. I thought that was a federal deal, 200 gallons a year, don't go selling any.... Anyway so we pull up to Poison Spider Bicycles in my Raider, my Litespeed on the back with a brand new probably not available yet banana yellow Judy SL. We finish our biz inside, and step out to quite a crowd standing around looking at my bike. Get closer, what they're looking at is the slow drip drip drip of hydraulic fluid out of the bottom of Judy. There was another incident, with another Judy damper, but you get the idea. Yeah I guess White Bros had the sweet upgrade for the original. But I'm liking the Arlo option, fingers crossed, no leaks yet. Or, it could be something completely different, in which case, nevermind...
RUNNER UP - Christian Seeley: "Oh Judy, why oh why do you have to be this way to me? Far before Britney went crazy, you were the woman that men lusted after and went over the deep end. You were the most popular in the 90's mountain biking hey-day. We showered you with aftermarket trinkets and doo-dads to make you individual and unique. Yet, for far too many of us, your damping cartridge continued to leak and blow apart at the most inopportune times, rendering you nothing more than a good looking pogo stick on the front of our bikes. Your cartridge blew apart so often, in fact, you forced your studio, Rock Shox, to redesign it for you. But the damage was done. Your cartridge was much like shaving your head and going into rehab. The XC crowd fell in love with the boy band star, SID, and the burgeoning freeride crowd went ga-ga for the rough and tumble Marzocchi Z series. Judy, you pushed the envelope in the early days of suspension forks, becoming the first real "must have", and the world adored you. But much like the other teenage stars, you imploded in an oily, hissing, broken cartridge mess."
HONORABLE MENTION - Brenden Dee: "If I'm not mistaken that is the infamous plastic cartridge from a circa '95 Judy. When I was just starting to work in shops those things were the bane of our head mechs existence. I remember many a high end Homegrown/Zaskar/DBR being brought back to the shop shortly after a sale with oil all over the lowers and one p.o.'d owner. A new one would go in and they'd be back, they always came back...."
HONORABLE MENTION - Paul Crawford: "That is debatably a RockShox Long Travel piston. I have the baggy mine came in, and it says:"Long Travel Kit 98 Judy XC/SL 80mm QTY:1 E00.." and the item number is 110-000607-00.
My fork is pretty odd. It is a Rock Shox Judy FSX Future shock carbon. It is way customized, but I'll get to that. It is basically a Judy SL with carbon legs. OK, so as I said it's been customized. It has a new alloy steerer, the piston has been exchanged for an 80mm one (stock is 65mm), the foam squishies wich act as springs were exchanged for medium SpeedSprings, the brace was exchanged for an Odyssey U4 Titanium one, which is sort of secretly drilled to match this fork. The brake studs are Titanium, the crown and brace bolts are Titanium, and I use a Hope Head Doctor instead of a "star-fangle nut". I got the FSX Judy from someone who bought it and left it in it's box until about 5 months ago, so it is really new. It now weighs 1.6lbs, so the only way to tell there's a suspension is to hit something. It is a whole lot stiffer too."
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