Edit page title GUIDE: How to choose the right fork oil - XNUMXfactory .com
Edit meta description Find out how to choose the right fork oil here. Discover our entire range of fork oils for your two wheels
Edit page URL
Close edit interface

Parts and equipment for motorcycles, quads, scooters and bicycles

motorcycle and scooter fork oil

CHOOSE YOUR FORK OIL

Indispensable to your motorcycle, the fork is the link between your front wheel and the ground. This is why fork oil is essential to ensure good handling, damping of the motorcycle, better guidance and optimal braking. The fork oil which circulates in the fork tube thus ensures your safety and increases the longevity of your motorcycle.

Fork oil changes about every two years or every km. Be careful to check its viscosity before changing it, and also check that there are no leaks at the oil seals. Indeed, an oil leak on the wheel would be risky for braking.

motorcycle scooter fork oil

Which fork oil?

When the quality of the fork oil deteriorates, the entire behavior of the motorcycle deteriorates (handling, suspension, braking, etc.). It is therefore essential to know which motorcycle fork oil to choose. Here are the best tips for choosing the right fork oil.

Keep in mind that the viscosity of fork oil is expressed through the acronym SAE.

Depending on whether your motorcycle is equipped with a classic fork (conventional) or an inverted fork (USD), you will not use the same oil.

Inverted fork

Inverted forks require a smoother oil with a viscosity index between SAEXNUMX and SAE XNUMX. These forks are mainly fitted to off-road, enduro or cross . The pilots try to use a relatively fluid enough oil in order to have the good feeling of the ground.

As stated previously, an oil with an index of XNUMX is found mainly on off-road, but also on small cylinders and small roads. In this situation, it is therefore advisable to use this type of oil (SAE XNUMX).

Conventional fork

Conventional forks, which are fitted to road motorcycles, need an oil with an index of XNUMX to XNUMX, or even more.

So a rider with a sporty riding style on the road will need to use fork oil with an index of XNUMX. Indeed, he does not want his forks to plunge at the slightest sudden braking on the road.

Which oil to choose?

As much importance should be attached to the choice of fork oil as to your engine oil.

However, if the engine oil is subjected to high temperatures, the fork oil is subjected to compressions and relaxations.

Respect the quantity of oil to put in the fork tubes under penalty of blowing the oil seals.

The fork oil is ep qualifiedar its viscosity, from grade XNUMX to grade XNUMX.

Your fork oil can impact your suspension. At least it's the amount of fork oil you put in that can have that impact. Indeed, the suspension depends on the springs, as well as the volume of air in the tubes. The more you fill the tube with fork oil, the less volume of air there is inside, logical. And if the volume of oil is greater, the rise in internal pressure is greater. This will affect the stiffness of your bike's suspension.

So remember to choose an oil that meets your expectations (in terms of material), and take the necessary quantities!

The different brands of fork oil:

Conclusion

The recommendation for the fork oil change is a maximum of two years or km.

The fork, by absorbing the shocks due to the state of the road, allows to increase the longevity of the engine and the frame, in addition to ensuring a certain comfort to the rider and the passenger of the motorcycle. But to ensure these depreciation, its maintenance is necessary and the fork oil essential! Depreciation carried out par the oil must compensate for the oscillations which are necessary for road holding and comfort. The hydraulics will slow down the oscillations by absorbing the stored energy.ar Springs. To compensate for these oscillations, oil will circulate in a tube.

Discover here how to choose the right engine oil .

Also find our tutorials videos and written to perform the emptying of your machine.


HERE XNUMX% OF THE PARTS INDICATED IN STOCK REALLY ARE!