Front End Click or Tap over bumps

[Afast03nNJ]

I installed the HyperPro spring set, both front and rear a few weeks ago. Great upgrade!!!! Everything was great the first 2 or 3 rides. Now I'm hearing a Click or Tap from the front end over certain bumps. Not all the time, but when it does it, you hear it. It's like the spring hitting something inside the fork or maybe something on the cap? Steering head seems tight, I went over the triple tree and everything seems tight too. Brakes, fender etc. all tight.

Ideas, suggestions appreciated.

 

[mcatrophy]

I installed the HyperPro spring set, both front and rear a few weeks ago. Great upgrade!!!! Everything was great the first 2 or 3 rides. Now I'm hearing a Click or Tap from the front end over certain bumps. Not all the time, but when it does it, you hear it. It's like the spring hitting something inside the fork or maybe something on the cap? Steering head seems tight, I went over the triple tree and everything seems tight too. Brakes, fender etc. all tight.

Ideas, suggestions appreciated.

One possible source of a click is the brake's discs. They are floating, and can have some play, which will show up either when braking, or when hitting a bump.

Sit beside the front wheel, grasp the disc with both hands, try to rotate it vigorously clock-wise then counter-clock-wise. Repeat for the other side.

If you hear a click, does it sound like the one you hear over bumps?

 

[Afast03nNJ]

Negative on the disc's. I took the caps off the forks, checked that everything was tiight rotated the spring 180 and put it all back together.

Will report back in a few days.

 

[Afast03nNJ]

Update: after rotating the springs 180 the noise is gone.

 

[LAF]

Update: after rotating the springs 180 the noise is gone.

Not sure why that would stop the noise? I know when I did mine there was a top and bottom to the spring. I also used spring buffers from Traxxion in my springs. You can look them up but many people now make them. If your forks are bent and the spring set to that and rubbed, and now you spun them I would expect the rub to come back after a time. Just not sure you fixed the issue or just prolonged a relapse?

 

[S76]

I had my forks done twice by that place in the northwest, can't remember the name, and they still click and clunk. It's time to service the forks this winter so I'll get it taken care of. I believe the springs flex to the side as they compress. Hope it didn't ruin anything inside.

 

[DennisJ]

GP Suspension in Oregon City, OR ?? Recently purchased and relocated to Auburn, WA. Dave, the owner of GP Suspension, still involved in a consultant role. See the KFG press release at this URL.

https://pnwriders.com/kfg-racing/164978-kfg-racing-announces-race-tire-vendor-partnership-modification-dunlop-pirelli.html

 

[S76]

GP Suspension in Oregon City, OR ?? Recently purchased and relocated to Auburn, WA. Dave, the owner of GP Suspension, still involved in a consultant role. See the KFG press release at this URL.

https://pnwriders.com/kfg-racing/164978-kfg-racing-announces-race-tire-vendor-partnership-modification-dunlop-pirelli.html

Yeah it was GP Suspensions. They admitted they had some forks that were clicking and that they had a fix. So I sent them back, they reworked them and they still click and getting worse as time goes by. About 40k miles on them now. On mine you not only hear it you can feel it in the handle bars. Still handles fine though. Not to noticable on the road, but drive across the grass and they really act up.