Santa Creme Suspension Work and Front-End Upgrades for 2023!

Despite the good work debugging Santa Creme, I took off the suspension and gave it to JN to ship and overhauled by his Santa Barbara mechanic. Psyched to get this done and to participate with pro JN maintenance cycle!

Apparently, dirt was the culprit. I sent along the 140mm spare shaft and wiper kit. Shaft came back, maybe they used my wipers

JN as the intermediary

"He said that the fork was really dirty inside which probably was causing the issues that you were experiencing. So no new air shaft needed."
Also he confirmed that all pikes use the same CSU regardless of travel, so the fork is good even though it’s marked 120 on a 150 travel fork."The invoice sheds light on the work performed:

Items                                                             Quantity                        Price Amount

Full Service Fork                                                     1                            $130.00 $130.00

Rockshox Charger 2/2.1 Damper Service Kit                 1                           $22.00                                                    $22.00

Rockshox 35 DebonAir & Solo Air Service Kit                 1                        $12.00 $12.00

Full Service Shock                                                     1                            $140.00 $140.00

Fox CTD and DPS service kit                                         1                             $20.00 $20.00

Fox Rear Shock Air Sleeve kit                                         1                             $24.00 $24.00

Fox Eyelet Bushing Flanged                                             4                             $0.50 $2.00

Fox DPS Shaft                                                                 1                            $15.00 $15.00

Total (of "Amount" column)     $365

Plus $22 shipping

Grand Total = $387

JN delivered the parts yesterday, just before the rains. They look GORGEOUS, brand new, I look forward to putting it together.

In addition to suspension work, Santa Claus hooked me up with further upgrades for Santa Creme ove the month of December

New DHF Minion, 2.5! 

The current front DHF will goto the rear, destroying any last XC remnants of "project lightening" here.

And, yet another Nuke Proof Dropper - I dumped no less than 4 empty Nukeproof bar boxes this weekend.

Santa Creme only has had the medium drop option.

Nice rain going on, I will get into it soon with final pictures.

And some pictures assembled

the tag "Lone Wolf Suspension" had the settings before and presumably after the maintenance - not anything magical

Brakes and fender on

New air cap and Fun Meter!

• TODO:

• new 25mm of brake-bolts required -current one was rusty

• the ratchet in the 12sp XT shifter seems to be shot - the lever is not ratcheting, instead going flat to the max/not moving to the next gear

• bad or broken cable? but its new...