There I am sorting out the old draggy Magura brake and then I see the cracks on the post mount of the fork...
It's 2010 Magura Thor, purchased NOS in December 2012. It's been used for 4 months, with 180mm rotor up front, with Magura MArta SL brakes fitted with Magura bolts to the specced torque. The forks been used for stuff it was designed for - all mountain, but I'm not talking massive drops, just fairly fairly hard riding up and down big hills.
Before this I had another Magura Thor 2010 fork fitted with the same set up, which I only swapped because i had severe damage to the stanchions from a crash onto some rocks. Post mounts and lowers on this are fine. It is pictured below on its own.
So, my question is: try the warranty path on the NOS fork, or just swap the lowers around from the other fork with the damaged stanchions?
The only possible thing I can think that I might have done is to put some medium loctite on the bolt threads, but surely that wouldn't force a crack, and in any case I've always done that with brake bolts.
Anyone got any advice or thoughts?
Thanks
Rich
It's 2010 Magura Thor, purchased NOS in December 2012. It's been used for 4 months, with 180mm rotor up front, with Magura MArta SL brakes fitted with Magura bolts to the specced torque. The forks been used for stuff it was designed for - all mountain, but I'm not talking massive drops, just fairly fairly hard riding up and down big hills.
Before this I had another Magura Thor 2010 fork fitted with the same set up, which I only swapped because i had severe damage to the stanchions from a crash onto some rocks. Post mounts and lowers on this are fine. It is pictured below on its own.
So, my question is: try the warranty path on the NOS fork, or just swap the lowers around from the other fork with the damaged stanchions?
The only possible thing I can think that I might have done is to put some medium loctite on the bolt threads, but surely that wouldn't force a crack, and in any case I've always done that with brake bolts.
Anyone got any advice or thoughts?
Thanks
Rich