Removing Your Forks

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Tools Needed: Various sizes of allen key; Bike stand (optional); Pen & paper (optional)

Single Crown Forks

• If you have one, secure the bike in its stand.
• Remove the front wheel.
• Use an allen key to remove the bolts which attach the brake caliper to the fork legs.
• Undo and remove the top cap from the stem.
• Loosen the stem bolts and slide the stem off the steerer, making sure to support the fork crown – your hand will be the only thing stopping the forks from falling out at this point!
• Slide any spacers you may have fitted off the stem, and, if you need to, note down which order they were fitted in, i.e. Two above the stem, three below. This will come in handy when you refit your fork.
• You can now carefully slide the fork out from the headtube.

Double Crown Forks

• If you have one, secure the bike in its stand.
• Remove the front wheel.
• Use an allen key to remove the bolts which attach the brake caliper to the fork legs.
• Undo the pinch bolts of the upper and lower crowns, and start to slide the forks from the crowns.
• Remove the fork bumpers if fitted, then slide the stanchions all the way out.