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No, but I just ignored it. The bike was (apart from my bottle cage bolts coming loose on the last day) faultless. It’s also hugely confidence inspiring and very fast. On the tunnel back to the UK now, wishing I could have stayed longer.

where’s that, looks great/awful

where’s that, looks great/awful

pls someone sell me a lyric/pike 29er fork or similar in 140 or 150 flavour

I have one with a Secus attached in 150.

Nope. I'm doing the same as @Dammit and ignoring it.
New stem didn't make a difference, I've also wrenched the lowers around to make sure it's not the CSU, which it isn't. That was my main concern, so I now don't care what it is

I will however try a few more things, maybe one more headset shim. And rerouting the cables differently. Then I'll set it on fire.

@Dammit Hi, thanks, that sounds expensive but let’s say I’m interested. ps sorry for double post

Well, the Secus cost £285 plus fitting, in addition to the fork - but I'm aware that it's now an older model (August 2020) Lyrik, albeit an older Lyrik Ultimate.

In an ideal world I'd sell the fork with my XL RC295 frame, which has a Super Deluxe Ultimate shock that has the Meg-Neg aircan modification, with the Lyrik, for £1,500.

So! I might try to do that, first, then work out what I'd want for the fork on its own.

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If you have been (for example) using a front wheel cradle on an uplift that bends the end of your mudguard you can get good results with a heat gun when you get back.

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Do Fox forks take ages to bed in? My fox 36 after over 20hrs of riding is nowhere near as plush off the top as my basic bitch RS Yari. And that's even though it definitely has more fore-aft flex...

Get the bushings burnished?

I hate pissing about with bikes that don't really get raced much... hopefully a week in the alps will make the stanchions do a similar thing!

Aren't they renowned for having the air spring full of grease? Drop the lowers and see how much they wasted in there?

I've replaced both headset bearings, added and removed shims, done up and undone cable guides and flushed them with silicone spray, sprayed all the linkages with lube... It's still clicking.

Next thing is to try removing and refitting the headset cups in case it's dirt somehow in between them and headtube.

Is the whole headset Hope or just the bearings? Some companies can have funny dimensions for the cups which can mean another brand's bearings sit on the flats rather than the chamfer.

It's a Hope headset, now with replacement bearings but they're the correct spec. The click started with the original Hope bearings and hasn't gone away, so it's not that.

cheers that sounds like an easy check

Can you put the fork on a different frame and test that? I'm just wondering if it's the crown/steerer.

I'm selling my DHX shock on eBay at the moment, chap just asked what my buy-it-now price would be. Ebay tells me that the average selling price for one of these is £375, but I don't know how accurate that is. What should I say?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115461145770

And that's even though it definitely has more fore-aft flex.

If it's flexing it will bind in the bushings, making it feel sticky and less plush.

Ebay tells me that the average selling price for one of these is £375

They retail at what, £600-£700? Yours has how many hours on it? If it's not many, and way below the service interval (and it sounds like its not many) I'd be asking for £450 -£500.

I would of course qualify that with any interested buyer though.

It was on my Cotic until recently, click free (but a different headset) and I've ridden it once click free on the Geometron. I've taken the wheel out, stood on the bars and wrenched the lowers about and there's no creak, so I'm pretty sure it's not the CSU - or I'm not strong enough 🤷🏼‍♂️

Weirdly, I managed to make it click with the bike upside down on bars and saddle, and pushing on the downtube, so pressure going through the headset but not the fork

Sure there's not a crack in the frame somewhere? Does it click if you push on just one side of the bars? or only both together?