yeah thats it lucas send me yer shocks i can reseal them when i do mine i think one of my shafts might be slightly chain knurled.....hmmmm how are the shafts on those hehehehehehe...
besides the ones on my maico,i actually had a second pair that i picked off a moto-x-fox pat richter RM suzi racer that i found on a property that i was asked to help clean up by a realtor.it was funny this friend of a friend says so and so has control of this remote property up on the table mountain,near cherokee(right outside oroville).The story was that a bunch of bad criminal type 1% ers had been up there making trouble fer years untill the neighbors brother got in a lil kerpuffle and ended up shooting dead the head biker i think ...so the raeltor dude who drank with our friends out at the river,says, he says "we cant get anybody to EVEN GET STARTED cleaning up this property" "too much bad joo joo with the gun killing and all that mess" and it is full of all kinds of tools,equipment and old motorcycles.
Dude says i will give you the gate key and written note and you can haul off whatever you can or want to ..the more the better.i did not have to be talked into it anymore than that.
Next day me and a buddy and an old flat trailer in tow we went up to this remote property .needless to say we were a lil jumpy and packing iron as well ...just in case the satins devils or whoever they were was still lurkin about..the property was indeed remote ,couldn't even see any buildings from the road,just a drive and a gate up the hillside ... here is a few pics but there was shit spead out over 2 landings cut into the hillside condstruction/plumbing supplies power tools and motorsickles ever whare .it was almost hard to focus on one part of the property untill i finally seen this rm250 literally perfectly upside down , i went over and spun the wheels. i had spotted right off the fox airs and thor swinger and sun rims laced in,with heavy spokes so i knew it wasnt a joke..at first rattle i thought,dang its got maico forks !! then i was thinking no there 'zokes...wasnt long tho that it figgerd out that they were simons forks the triple clamps are the dead giveaway and on the property somewhere was the gold DG head as well.laying in a pile of rusty burnt junk not even a bent fin
from memory and the pics the other bikes were a cr450r elsinore a cupl 3 xr75's , 2 cb/sl 350's a maxim x 5 VALVE yamer ,an rm125 and a KZ1000 mk11...there were others but hurts my head trying to remember...we hauled off 3 full loads over 2 days from that place.
That was 6 years ago..i think...give or take a different planet..anyway the thor swinger i sold right away in auction to australia for $778 the DG head went for top doller,the simons forks were very rough and the fox airs were good for parts/restore.i was holding them for parts for the ones bad shaft on my wheelsmith maico ..but years later i decided to sell the fox airs and they went in auction fer $700+ i think but the ringer was the stamped P R at the top of the shock body with the date like 9 77 or something,well that P R according to pete fox ,witnessed/signified they were valved to go on a pat richter bike ! a fox works bike replica that you could order back in the day from fox .. Anyway pete (geoff fox's son and ceo of foxhead which used to be fox racing and long ago split from the brother bobs shock building business which became what is now fox factory)anyway pete fox got ahold of me after the auction and says "man i fucked up and missed the auction.but i REALLY would like those fox shocks for a museum quality pat richter rm fox racer we are putting together to suprise my dad and uncle.....i really need them, specially because they are still here and he says ,cause they are only the reel deel once" here is a guy with millions of rersource and could just make another identical set.but the rael one is just that
you see my pitchurs in the ebay auction for the fox airs showed clearly the P R and date of assembly stamped in the upper body which i had no idea at the time its signifigance.and pete fox said that it was a set of pat richter shocks either from pats own bike or a repli racer that you could get back in the day if you were like a top in your district known name FAST winning sponsored expert mxer and had money in buckets ...anyway .i asked the buyer/winner of the P R foxairs if he would consider talking to pete fox, and they worked out a deal , so the shocks could go home for the museum bike
latr that same year i gave pete the simons forks for a hunderd bucks i think it was,plus the shipping i was prepared to gift em to the project but he wanted to pay something ....the simons triples i made look new and sold for good money as well,early on like the swinger head wheels and other bits
that one upside down motercycle wheels literally spinning in the brease was like $2000+ in parts sales
so lucas check your fox airs for what witness ID marks and date a friend of mine ended up with a pair marked P K which meant they were built for pierre karsmakers red rocket factory honda when pierre was racing for them
