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Originally Posted by razor02097
Did you have a budget in mind? You can get something like a RockShox Monarch air shock for $170ish. There are cheaper dampers all over Amazon and ebay in the $30-40 range.
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$170ish is still a pretty big pile of money to me.. remember I'm driving a bicycle that retailed under $1k new and is 10+ years old now. I saw a few on ebay but if my loathing for ebay wasn't enough, they also looked like they weren't actually dampers, just a "guide" for the coil spring. Basically the same thing as having a broken damper like I have now. I didn't see any on Amazon in the more than $20, less than $300 price range. In my mind, something like $40 sounds pretty good. Did you see anything neat on Amazon?
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Originally Posted by Accented
Have you tried your LBS (local bike shop, I'm used to cycling forums)?
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I got used to cycling forums a while back, and to LBS's. as much as I like local businesses and I understand everyone deserves to be paid for what they do, I just can't afford either of those things. Whenever I would ask a question on a bike forum, the answer was always "WELL THAT'S EASY, JUST PULL OUT 4000 DOLLARS AND GIVE IT TO YOUR LBS, DUH!" ... sure, and when I run out of bread I can just eat cake too.
There's a huge valley between department store sh%t bikes and serious bikes, and that valley is full of thorns and a-holes. Either you're a billionaire who can afford to feed carbon fiber and unicorn bones to your boutique bike or you're nobody.
I'm not saying any of that stuff to whine at you about your reply, it's a fair reply - just explaining why I don't bother with LBS's or bike forums anymore. There's just no room in either of those places for people who want to spend
medium dollars.
