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Marque Remarks => Honda => Topic started by: E74 on September 25, 2008, 09:03:11 am

Title: Cartridge Forks
Post by: E74 on September 25, 2008, 09:03:11 am: Anyone know the first year Honda fitted cartridge forks to the CR250? ???
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: Gerard De Ruyter (Twistandshout) on September 25, 2008, 09:07:44 am: 1986 i believe. RG. Perfected on the 1988 models.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: evo550 on September 25, 2008, 09:55:44 am: '86 is correct....'87 perfected.....'88 total f&*k up......and remained the same for some time.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: Tahitian_Red on September 25, 2008, 01:39:58 pm: Evo is correct.

1986-First
1987-Best
1988-Worst
1989-Not So Hot Either and Upside-Down

I own a very nice '88 CR250. The articles I have talk about the bushings being a big part of the problem.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: STW996 on September 25, 2008, 05:18:11 pm: In 89 I think they even went to the drouble of bring out HRC kits for them so you could take your bike back to the dealer for replacements?
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: VMX Andrew on September 25, 2008, 05:31:31 pm: unbelieveable ehh...87 model forks were better than the 88 -89 even the 1990 models were crap...
i think the 1992 forks were the big improvers ....took them a while to get it right ehh.... :)
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: Nathan S on September 25, 2008, 10:45:16 pm: Super Hunky still rates the '87 CR forks as among the best forks ever fitted to a dirt bike.

Don't think the 86 versions were too bad either.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: magoo on September 26, 2008, 08:08:12 am: 1978 were the 1st cartridge forks on a CR250
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: Graeme M on September 26, 2008, 08:45:03 am: What you talkin' 'bout Willis?

Were they really?
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: evo550 on September 27, 2008, 09:27:17 am: Cartridge forks legal in EVO!!! Holy shit I've been asleep under a tree too long.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: Maico31 on September 27, 2008, 03:55:42 pm: Magoo got it right but they were shite.. that's why most of them ended up in the bin and replaced with Fox, Simons or CR480 forks for vintage racing.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: magoo on September 27, 2008, 06:40:43 pm: Absolutely true Gra Gra. Absolutely true too John, they were cartridge forks but they were shite. That's why the "no cartridge forks" rule in Evo is a wank, they were available in the era. Not very good, but they were there.
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: Gerard De Ruyter (Twistandshout) on September 29, 2008, 09:57:11 am: magoo, not that i really know what makes for 'cartridge' forks, but i do know my '83 forks had different internals from my '86 internals. the '83 didn't have the damper rod (or whatever you call it) that bolts to the underneath of the fork cap like on the '86, which i woulda thought was part of the 'cartridge' mechanism. plus the '83 only had holes in the damper rod for damping and the '86 has.....some ovver fing. so what gives then?
Title: Re: Cartridge Forks
Post by: geraldo on October 01, 2008, 05:06:30 pm: I thought the US spec'd 1989 KX250 forks were rated as the best fork of all time (the conventional fork that the USA got , not the upside down ones the rest of the world got)