?? Question for ST1300 owners...........

[3fan4life]

I know that others on here also have a ST1300.

Yesterday, I discovered that my ST1300 needs fork seals.

With other bikes when the fork seals needed to be replaced, I've had Progressive springs installed.

It doesn't look like Progressive makes springs for the ST1300.

Does anyone know what else might be out there?

and, are they worth it?

TIA. 

[Valker]

I rode someone else’s with aftermarket springs and didn’t like it as well. When I rebuilt mine, I left everything stock.

[..]

I put Progressives in mine. But that was 9 years ago.

[hubcapsc]

Race Tech and Hyperpro are both probably good.

I have a Race Tech spring set for the Valkyrie (not installed)... it is
more complex than just springs, so if you go that route, beware...
there's a bunch of shims and stuff you have to install correctly
or you'll probably just have a mess...

-Mike

[Seabee]

I have  2005, changed fork seals and went to race tech springs.......check their web site...

[F6Dave]

Race Tech and Hyperpro are both probably good.

I have a Race Tech spring set for the Valkyrie (not installed)... it is
more complex than just springs, so if you go that route, beware...
there's a bunch of shims and stuff you have to install correctly
or you'll probably just have a mess...

-Mike

Is that part of their Gold Valve kit?  I had a neighbor who installed those on a couple of enduros.  He said they were great.  But installation was not easy at all.  As I remember the washers are flexible and deflect if you hit a sharp bump to allow more fork oil to flow, essentially creating valves with variable sizes.  He said he could ride over a rock or log off road and barely feel it.  Sounds like an interesting system.

[hubcapsc]

Is that part of their Gold Valve kit?

Maybe 



-Mike "squirrels ate my box..."

[semo97]

My short stay of 4 yrs. in Colorado and driving 5 miles out to pavement the decomposed granite that they put on the roads (the dust) ate fork seals up fast . I went back with stock but I put in a pvc tube inside the forks I think 1" longer then the stock internal tube. I also mixed half and half 10wt. with 15wt. honda fork oil to get a 12.5 mix. The 10wt is to soft and you get the noise dive the 15wt to harsh so I split the difference. The extended tube helps all around. Go to the st forum they talk about it. I put dirt bike fork covers on mine and it keeps them clean all the time. I also put on dirt bike hand guards sure helped in the winter with heated grips. I also did the mix of 12.5 in my valk and the sons.