> Born to be WillD Wrote:
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> front end comes off with the 2 top forktube nuts and the head nut. those
> 3 points off, then the top of the triple tree comes off and the rest
> slides out the bottom of the headtube.
>
> plugging the decomp along with lots of other relevant important info is
> in the 505/1a performance wiki page I linked before. The decomp is
> unnecessary on sachs and commonly prone to failure - much easier to just
> nix that now than have it crop up later and cause confusion. Like it's
> so negligible of a difference in starting you'd never notice, but the
> issues it causes wind up being rather non-obvious and lead people to all
> sorts of other fixes, thinking it's too rich or too lean or timing etc,
> and its just another dumb leaky sachs decomp
>
> 1 good tire lever is pretty important, 2 is easier, 3 is useless. if
> you're good you don't need any, but 1 is easier and the second can be
> useful often. Good cable cutters are just something I like that saves
> frustration. you're likely to have to cut your own cables to adjust
> lengths etc - especially if you want this to look good, and having good
> cutters means it's a lot less likely to fray the ends, it's easier to
> get it cleanly where you want it and also easier to affix screw on
> barrels to the ends (aka "knarps") which you'll probably be using unless
> you're goin thru all the effort of setting up to solder your own cable
> ends, and even then clean cuts are pretty critical to success
Thanks for the info! I'll go tear the forks apart later.