RST Mozo Pro W front shocks.........help!

[Thias]

Hard to come by and if you find them the prices are silly considering the worth of such a fork. I guess you can fit the same elastomeres as the Rock shox Judys need, that should ease your search a bit.

I would switch to coil springs.
Pro: Cost much less, last forever, get you on the road again, easy to find.
Cons: Weight, too much boing if your fork has no dedicated rebound dampening.

The rubber bungs are way too hard imho. But it does work. You just get less travel.

 

[1997BlackC5]

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How about a few of these, what do you think?

http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/aca ... HOLE_.html

Not sure how much 'bounce' you would end up with as not sure how hard a compound these would be.......?

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

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MCU stands for micro-cellular urethane. The elastomers in the fork are made of this, the micro-cellular refers to tiny bubbles of gas contained within the urethane. When the fork is compressed these bubbles act as the spring and the urethane acts as the damper medium.
Rubber bungs for home-brew are way too dense to compress to give any decent travel, if any, and would bounce just like a rubber ball, no damping at all.
I know you can get replacement elastomers for Manitou forks which may fit RSTs, do a search for replacement elastomers for MTB forks.

I have 2 sets of Mozo Pros on my wife and daughter's bikes, will now need to check them out to make sure they are OK. :facepalm:

Edit to say the rubber bungs actually don't compress but deform, if they are too close in diameter to internal diameter of fork leg they won't do that as they will be constrained by no space to deform into. You'll end up with a virtually rigid fork.

 

[CristiRD]

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Those are the elastomer stacks, the stanchions and the push rods from my defunct RST Mozo Pro 1998-1999 (I guess).
They held up pretty well, the MCU dosn't desintegrate maybe because they were kept în a plastic bag for the last 15 years? :roll:
The fork looked slighty different than yours, I guess it was an older model, my knowledge on RST forks is pretty limited.

 

[Thias]

That is a newer Mozo pro with air based dampener. The fork of the TO is older. Same Elastomere stacks thou.

 

[mattbrown]

suspensionforkparts do spare elastomers for them but they wont be cheap from america or you can flog them to me as I have a nice pair of these already and a few spare part pairs as well