The spring spacers are pre-set at our factory to fit your own front end according to your order, which makes the fitting procedure very easy. It is very important that the spacers work right for your type of bike and riding style. If you wish to assembly the fork on another bike, see instructions at the bottom.

Remember to tighten the fork tube plugs hard before installing the fork legs on your bike. To do this you first tighten the fork tubes in the lower triple tree, and then tighten the fork tube plugs. And, of course, always add 300 ml fork oil per leg before riding (SAE 10-20).

Note: On the TOLLE lower legs there are threaded holes for fitting brake brackets and fender brackets. With the supplied bolts, you must have at least 3 mm material in the brackets you use, or you might strip the threads!

Adjusting the spring spacers to fit another bike:
If you want to use the fork tubes on another bike you need to adjust the spring spacers to the other bikes characteristics. Put the spacer into the fork leg and tighten the fork tube plug. Rest the completely assembled fork leg on a scale, your common bathroom scale will do. The idea here is to measure the amount of pressure required to push the fork tube 30 mm down into the lower leg. This job will be easier if you make a mark with a marker pen on the fork tube 30 mm above the lower leg. The more rake and longer fork your bike has, the less force (kg) you should apply to depress the fork leg the said 30 mm. If you use a relatively short extension like 6-8 inches and only a couple of degrees extra rake, you should have to press to somewhere around 35 kg on the scale to move the fork leg the required 30 mm. If you’re running a relatively long fork, extended 15-20 inch and using a 50-55 degrees rake, the scale should show only 18 kg. If the scale shows too high a figure for your type of bike, cut the spacers a bit shorter and try again. Make sure the spacers have parallel end surfaces.

The final adjustment
Before this adjustment it is a good thing if you have got a few miles on your new fork to get everything broken in right, otherwise you might get the wrong figures. Also, of course, you have added fork oil 300ml of SAE 10-20 per leg. Put your bike straight up, not leaning on the side stand, and on a flat surface. At this point, the weight of the bike should depress the fork somewhere around 30 mm from its top position. Should it depress only 10 mm, you will have to cut the spacers 20 mm, if it depresses 15 mm, you cut 15 mm off etc. You may have to repeat this process a couple of times to get it right. Note: The 30 mm may not be the absolute optimum figure in every case, it could be 25 mm and perfect or 35 mm and perfect, but the figure should be around there somewhere.