I'm in the process of ordering new fork tubes, as my old ones were pitted to hell. I emailed Forking by Frank and they gave me a quote of $248, which means that I will have to skip out on rent/food for the next few weeks...
Then again, I had called Cycle Xchange a few weeks ago about buying a set of 750 replacement fork tubes. I had measured the stock fork tubes and they came out to be
22 and 3/16ths inches.
According to this thread, both diameters for 750s and 550s are the same, 35mm.
They have a set that's
21 and 13/16ths inches, and the next set is 21 and 13/16ths inches, all for $149. That's 100 bucks I could use to, say, buy brake lines, or appease my landlord. My question is: would buying 750 fork tubes that are just slightly shorter than stock be worth it for my bike? As opposed to ordering a more expensive stock length set from Frank?
The link to Cycle XchangeEdit: just to prove that I'm not a clot and that I used the Search function, I found
these two threads. Apparently the only difference between 750 and 550 tubes are spring strength and length. I have my stock springs and if I spring for the Cycle Xchange ones the length is only going to change by approx. 3/8ths inch.
Would the dampers and other hardware still check out? Or did I just answer my own question?