Stiffing forks on dirt bike?

Question

I heard that you can add washer to your forks, and it will stiffen them up, i have a 110cc pit bike, and the forks are to loose for me, if the washer thing is true where do i add the washers, and what else can i do to help them stiffen up, they are not inverted, and have no adjustment nob. thanks

* washers (first line)

Answer 1

one by bycecile you can add oil to the shocks to stiffen them up so you should look on the bottom or top for a hex bolt wear you can add oil

Answer 2

You need to take the fork cap off. On top of the spring you can put small tubes about 4 to 6 inches in length to stiffen up the suspension, or you can cut a spring the same as the one in the fork to a length of about 4 inches and add that to the length of the stock spring to stiffen them up. I'm not sure washers would be thick enough to stiffen the suspension.

Answer 3

adding washers to take up space and compress the spring more, or as said above, cut the spring (this will increase the spring rate) and then add a spacer; this will increase the preload

If your compression dampening is too weak, you can add a thicker oil.

Pit bikes have become pretty popular lately... I bet you could order stiffer springs for the forks.

Answer 4

On my 1000, I used a large hex nut approximately 1 inch thick in each tube between the spring and the threaded cap on top. It really helped support a heavily loaded fairing.