Pace RC35 : good condition or not ? your tell me

[betterdays]

Hello peeps
I've seen this fork up for sale in my city, but I'd like your thoughts about its condition, namely the outer kevlar tubes. The price is £55 and the elastomers are toast.




I'm going to go and check her out later today, but I wonder if the brighter bumps where the legs get narrower are normal in the 3rd pic (maybe it's just a flash thing), and is it a decent price knowing the elastomers are about £25 from rubber manufacturers ? (not considering suspensionforkparts etc)

I admit I may simply buy it just to get a feel for the beast and it would make for a neat british-french ride (vintage Sunn !)

Thanks for any insight you can provide

 

[NeilM]

Difficult to be absolutely sure from a photo, but they look fine to me.

I suggest a PM to member justbackdated, as Tim is an ex-Pace employee who has all the knowledge and tooling to advise and work on Pace forks.

 

[Paul Eggleton]

Yep, they look pretty good to me.

I paid over £100 for these in the UK......and they needed new rubbers

 

[betterdays]

I paid over £100 for these in the UK......and they needed new rubbers

Well yours is in super nice condition, apparently, hence the price... Wait, you say "these", was it 100 for a pair of forks ?
I went to check the fork and gosh, it looked like sh*t, alu stickers damaged and peeling off, battered crown, dirt in every hole possible, and the legs were filled with elastomer goo, oh how I hate sellers who don't clean their items.
What ultimately made me back up was the sticky stanchions, hard to actuate by hand (how will they move with just a stack of elastomers and a biker on top ?)
Back to refreshing my lovely Marzocchis...

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Dirt can be cleaned off, decals replaced, the crown refinished, and if the elastomers are shot then the stanchions will be 'sticky...'

...you may have passed up on a bit of a bargain there, and I'm not even a Pace fan!

 

[Wytze]

I paid over £100 for these in the UK......and they needed new rubbers

Well yours is in super nice condition, apparently, hence the price... Wait, you say "these", was it 100 for a pair of forks ?

In English a front fork is referred to as "forks" (as if you'd say: fourches for only one fourche); it's because a bicycle fork has two legs. That is why the English say "these". Just like they do with "a pair of trousers" (pantelon)
It's called Plural Tantum.

I just wonder what the English would call a Cannondale lefty: 'a Lefty fork' or 'Lefty forks'?

 

[secret_squirrel]

I don't think they were a great price. You can get cheaper on here once you factor in around £40 (not £25) for new elastomers.

 

[24pouces]

around £40 (not £25) for new elastomers.

I have contacted Pace for new elastomers yesterday.
Who know if they still sale some (I'm looking for the first microcellular one) ?

 

[secret_squirrel]

Both pace and Tim aka Justbackdated on this site sell them. I bought a set before Xmas from pace so unless my memory is going I'm right on price. You can confirm by looking in the pace parts shop on their site.

Tim is retrobikes resident pace fork expert on here - he is ex-pace and has helped out loads of us for parts and servicing.

 

[betterdays]

45-50 would be a good price. Does anyone remember how much the RC35 were, back in 1992 ?