2003 RockShox SID Issues

In article <[email hidden]>, dataylor123 @yahoo.com says...

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Hey,

Were there not some issues with the 2003 RockShox SID that were fixed in the 2004 model? I also
remember it being mentioned that the 03 fork could be sent back to RockShox for a fix. I've gone
through Google and found nothing about this.

Any body remember something like this?

Dave

Every year of SID had some issue, SID stands for Sudden Internal Death syndrome. If Rockshox is
going to fix it for free you better contact them now, after 2 years the disavow any knowledge of
their product.
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"onefred" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hey,

Were there not some issues with the 2003 RockShox SID that were fixed in

the

Quoted message said:

2004 model? I also remember it being mentioned that the 03 fork could be sent back to RockShox for
a fix. I've gone through Google and found

nothing

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about this.

Any body remember something like this?

Dave

Give Rockshox/SRAM a call or email. They can best provide the answers.

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

Chris Phillipo said:

In article <[email hidden]>, dataylor123 @yahoo.com says...

Quoted message said:

Hey,

Were there not some issues with the 2003 RockShox SID that were fixed in the 2004 model? I also
remember it being mentioned that the 03 fork could be sent back to RockShox for a fix. I've gone
through Google and found nothing about this.

Any body remember something like this?

Dave

Every year of SID had some issue, SID stands for Sudden Internal Death syndrome. If Rockshox is
going to fix it for free you better contact them now, after 2 years the disavow any knowledge of
their product.

ROTFLMAO!
--
Slacker (former RS owner)

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Every year of SID had some issue, SID stands for Sudden Internal Death syndrome. If Rockshox is
going to fix it for free you better contact them now, after 2 years the disavow any knowledge of
their product.

Yeah, I understand that SID's are high maintenance. I know there are better shocks (like from Fox),
but I'm already an RS owner...

Dave

"onefred" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Every year of SID had some issue, SID stands for Sudden Internal Death syndrome. If Rockshox is
going to fix it for free you better contact them now, after 2 years the disavow any knowledge of
their product.

Yeah, I understand that SID's are high maintenance. I know there are better shocks (like from
Fox), but I'm already an RS owner...

The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of [censored]. Go ahead, remain a rocksux
owner and keep replacing their [censored] with more [censored].

JD

JD said:

The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of [censored].

A worthless post. How about some specific things to watch our for? Or are you just trying to justify
your latest purchase of Brand Whocares?

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JD <[email hidden]> wrote:

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The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of

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A worthless post.

Nah, the OP had the worthless post. If they had half of a brain and decided to Google their
question, it would have been answered many times over.

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How about some specific things to watch our for?

Grow more grey matter and Google it, fool.

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Or are you just trying to justify your latest purchase of Brand Whocares?

Yeah, I have to justify all of my purchases on Usenet. I never back up any of my opinions with
anything other than psuedo-wind tunnel testing of my bicycles by driving around with them in a roof
rack. Now go [censored] up some other rope.

JD

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JD <[email hidden]> wrote:

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The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of

[censored].

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A worthless post.

Nah, the OP had the worthless post. If they had half of a brain and decided to Google their
question, it would have been answered many times over.

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How about some specific things to watch our for?

Grow more grey matter and Google it, fool.

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Or are you just trying to justify your latest purchase of Brand Whocares?

Yeah, I have to justify all of my purchases on Usenet. I never back up any of my opinions with
anything other than psuedo-wind tunnel testing of my bicycles by driving around with them in a
roof rack. Now go [censored] up some other rope.

JD

Dear JD,

I can't say whether it's your charming style or your detailed content that's more convincing.

Carl Fogel

There's a pleasant personality. How's it goin', "JD"?

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JD <[email hidden]> wrote:

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The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of

[censored].

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A worthless post.

Nah, the OP had the worthless post. If they had half of a brain and decided to Google their
question, it would have been answered many times over.

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How about some specific things to watch our for?

Grow more grey matter and Google it, fool.

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Or are you just trying to justify your latest purchase of Brand

Whocares?

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Yeah, I have to justify all of my purchases on Usenet. I never back up any of my opinions with
anything other than psuedo-wind tunnel testing of my bicycles by driving around with them in a
roof rack. Now go [censored] up some other rope.

JD

Robin Hubert wrote:
| There's a pleasant personality. How's it goin', "JD"?
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| "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
|| [email hidden] scrawled in crayon:
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||| JD <[email hidden]> wrote:
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|||| The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of [censored].
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||| A worthless post.
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|| Nah, the OP had the worthless post. If they had half of a brain and decided to Google their
|| question, it would have been answered many times over.
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||| How about some specific things to watch our for?
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|| Grow more grey matter and Google it, fool.

<snip>

I'm getting damned sick and tired of this "Google it" attitude on Usenet. If you don't feel it's
worth your time to answer *a freaking question* then don't waste your time telling people to fool
with a search engine.

You know what, I can't stand using Google or any other search for that matter. Enter almost anything
into it and you get thousands of responses to sift through. It take far less of my time to post a
simple question and check back later and see if somebody has been *kind* enough to answer.

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"Robin Hubert" <[email hidden]> top posted like some kind
of lame neophyte:<[email hidden]>...

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There's a pleasant personality. How's it goin', "JD"?

Excellent, excellent...

JD Montgomery Burns

[email hidden] (Carl Fogel) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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I can't say whether it's your charming style or your detailed content that's more convincing.

Stick to being a faceless internet "authority" on technical issues, carl. Your weak flame was about
as effective as a wet match in a hurricane.

JD

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[email hidden] (Carl Fogel) wrote in message
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I can't say whether it's your charming style or your detailed content that's more convincing.

Stick to being a faceless internet "authority" on technical issues, carl. Your weak flame was
about as effective as a wet match in a hurricane.

JD

Dear JD,

Surely no one would mistake me for a faceless internet authority, although even the gentlest reproof
seems to strike sparks from you.

Carl Fogel

"The Nelson Paradigm" <[email hidden]> wrote

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You know what, I can't stand using Google or any other search for that matter. Enter almost
anything into it and you get thousands of responses to sift through. It take far less of my
time to post a simple question and check back later and see if somebody has been *kind* enough
to answer.

Well, that certainly explains a lot.

CC

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[email hidden] (Carl Fogel) wrote in message
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I can't say whether it's your charming style or your detailed content that's more convincing.

Stick to being a faceless internet "authority" on technical issues, carl.

Carl wasn't trying to be any kind of authority on anything, it was actually you that stated the SID
was a piece of [censored], and people simply want to know why. I think that's fair enough, so, if you
can't back up your contribution, why make one?

On 2 Jan 2004 19:37:55 -0800, [email hidden] (Corvus Corvax)

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"The Nelson Paradigm" <[email hidden]> wrote

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You know what, I can't stand using Google or any other search for

that

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matter. Enter almost anything into it and you get thousands of

responses to

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sift through. It take far less of my time to post a simple

question and

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check back later and see if somebody has been *kind* enough to

answer.

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Well, that certainly explains a lot.

Wow.

People who can't craft a decent search in Google yet profess to be uber-scifi geeks are quite the
conundrum.

It certainly does explain alot.

"The Nelson Paradigm" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Robin Hubert wrote:
| There's a pleasant personality. How's it goin', "JD"?
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| "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
|| [email hidden] scrawled in crayon:
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||| JD <[email hidden]> wrote:

|||| The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of [censored].

||| A worthless post.
||
|| Nah, the OP had the worthless post. If they had half of a brain and decided to Google their
|| question, it would have been answered many times over.
||
||| How about some specific things to watch our for?
||
|| Grow more grey matter and Google it, fool.

<snip>

I'm getting damned sick and tired of this "Google it" attitude on Usenet. If you don't feel it's
worth your time to answer *a freaking question* then don't waste your time telling people to fool
with a search engine.

What's that word that is used so much on this group, wait, oh yeah, "I-R-O-N-Y". Yeah, what is so
ironic, is that the people who are the observed experts (yeah right) of this group are usually the
ones who make baseless opinions about prouducts but never seem to offer any proof backing up their
opinion, other then to go check Google and an insult for using that product. What's really ironic
and hypocritical are those who refer to mtbreview.com users as "etards", but, at the same time,
those individuals regularly visit their discussion groups and post pictures on the website.

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| "The Nelson Paradigm" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]-
| berlin.de>...
|| Robin Hubert wrote:
||| There's a pleasant personality. How's it goin', "JD"?
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||| "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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||||| JD <[email hidden]> wrote:
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|||||| The rocksux sad is not high maintenance, it's simply a piece of [censored].
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||||| A worthless post.
||||
|||| Nah, the OP had the worthless post. If they had half of a brain and decided to Google their
|||| question, it would have been answered many times over.
||||
||||| How about some specific things to watch our for?
||||
|||| Grow more grey matter and Google it, fool.
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|| <snip>
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|| I'm getting damned sick and tired of this "Google it" attitude on Usenet. If you don't feel it's
|| worth your time to answer *a freaking question* then don't waste your time telling people to fool
|| with a search engine.
||
| What's that word that is used so much on this group, wait, oh yeah, "I-R-O-N-Y". Yeah, what is so
| ironic, is that the people who are the observed experts (yeah right) of this group are usually the
| ones who make baseless opinions about prouducts but never seem to offer any proof backing up their
| opinion, other then to go check Google and an insult for using that product. What's really ironic
| and hypocritical are those who refer to mtbreview.com users as "etards", but, at the same time,
| those individuals regularly visit their discussion groups and post pictures on the website.

Part of the reason I don't often post or read this group any more is that I either have to killfile
or ignore so many regular posters because they have this smug notion that they are God's gift to
mountain biking and their opinion (opinion, not knowledge) is the only one that matters.

Quoted message said:

||
|| I'm getting damned sick and tired of this "Google it" attitude on Usenet. If you don't feel
|| it's worth your time to answer *a freaking question* then don't waste your time telling people
|| to fool with a search engine.
||
| What's that word that is used so much on this group, wait, oh yeah, "I-R-O-N-Y". Yeah, what is
| so ironic, is that the people who are the observed experts (yeah right) of this group are
| usually the ones who make baseless opinions about prouducts but never seem to offer any proof
| backing up their opinion, other then to go check Google and an insult for using that product.
| What's really ironic and hypocritical are those who refer to mtbreview.com users as "etards",
| but, at the same time, those individuals regularly visit their discussion groups and post
| pictures on the website.

Part of the reason I don't often post or read this group any more is that I either have to
killfile or ignore so many regular posters because they have this smug notion that they are God's
gift to mountain biking and their opinion (opinion, not knowledge) is the only one that matters.

Why Rock Shox sucks, the condensed version:

Strike 1 Rock Shox uses oil in their shocks, but not for lubrication, they use a shot glass or less
full of it for damping. To lube a Rock Shox requires taking it apart and gently rubbing it with
$5/oz lube that looks striking like the $5/Kg stuff at Walmart. Proper forks are filled with oil,
the oil both cleans and lubricates as well as providing the damping medium. A shock should need
service once or twice a year and last 6 years + with no degradation in performance. I believe the
last time I picked up a Rockshox manual it recommended removing the legs every 20 hours of use and
giving it a hand job.

Strike 2 Rock Shox puts an unholy emphasis on lightness and gimmicks. Some of their latest
"innovations" in the last 5 years are raised lettering on their lowers, spaghetti like arches and a
plastic knob that lets you choose how much slop you want between the stanchions and sliders.

Strike 3 Rock Shox noticed that their forks never leak oil, so they decided to save a few pennies
per fork by no longer supplying oil seals, just dust wipers. They said that their dust wipers are so
magical that oil seals were redundant. See strike #1 for the real reason the forks do not leak oil
but do collect every bit of debris that comes their way.

Sorry I didn't elaberate in my first post.
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