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There's a place in Germany that still sells the stems in 1.56, not sure I can find a 9 cm in that size, but can try. Looking for a stem spacer too, another hen's teeth in 1.56.
Brake boss plugs coming in the post too, otherwise water will gather in the rear and mess up the threads.
I'll take "mike the mountainbike" up Cavehill in a bit, there's a couple of trails. Hopefully I got the gearing low enough, these days people seem to use tiny front rings with rear cogs you can eat dinner from.
JWestland
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Looks ace. Needs a stem that matches the TT rise :)
Your damper is the same as the one in the picture, maybe a 2cm smaller, but it's the same design, basically a sealed tube with hydraulic fluid in it and a piston that's fixed to the middle of the damper rod. It should be full of oil, no air at all. But getting it air free is hard work.
The rod is in two halves - the lower half it press fit to the nut on the top cap, the upper half to the top cap itself. The lower half rotates when you operate the lockout that closes the ports in the piston.
The 'mystery thing' is a bumper for when the fork is at full extension - it's needed because the piston rests on the damper cap when there's no compression in the fork.