Air shocks not holding pressure
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Road Warrior
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Air shocks not holding pressure
I noticed when I got my new bike home there was zero pressure in the shocks. I put them up to 45 where I like to keep them and went riding with my wife. When we got where we were going we had noticed that the bumps were pretty sharp, I checked the shocks again and they were back down to zero. Of course I'm planning on taking the bike back in to get them fixed but was wondering if there was something simple I might be missing? They don't loose pressure right away when sitting, but slowly. When riding however, I lost 10 pounds of pressure in about 10 miles.
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Yup or spray with windex. Mine holds air for months " knock on wood"
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Disconnect the air hoses - using a new sharp razor blade cut a 1/4" off the ends as square as you can - reconnect. I have done this on my last 2 tourers with no loss of air even over winter storage. My tires loose air but my shocks don't.
This may or may not cure your problem but it is very simple to do. Try it.
This may or may not cure your problem but it is very simple to do. Try it.
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I noticed when I got my new bike home there was zero pressure in the shocks. I put them up to 45 where I like to keep them and went riding with my wife. When we got where we were going we had noticed that the bumps were pretty sharp, I checked the shocks again and they were back down to zero. Of course I'm planning on taking the bike back in to get them fixed but was wondering if there was something simple I might be missing? They don't loose pressure right away when sitting, but slowly. When riding however, I lost 10 pounds of pressure in about 10 miles.
Either "her indoors" has to diet her lovely body down to the currently fashionable size 0 or I have to save me pennies and buy some Fournales. My mate swears by his and I want to lower the back end a bit anyways (seat height on '09 is higher than the '08).