If you want to preface that with "in my experience" I'm certainly not going to tell you otherwise but in general terms the % of folks who ever need to replace a bladder on a FIT, Charger, Roughcut, Helm, DVO etc, etc, bladder damper is so minuscule as to be essentially non-existent. My proof is I've invoiced hundreds of fork services.
You should be fully tearing down every fork (open bath or bled damper) at least yearly, so I wouldn't call having to bleed your damper annually a chore.
Maybe an open bath wins by staying better lubricated (on the damper side) if neglected but given these forks all have ~10cc of bath oil in the air side they're still getting positively thrashed if not getting their routine lower service.
July 8, 2020, 10:44 a.m. - Andrew Major
If you want to preface that with "in my experience" I'm certainly not going to tell you otherwise but in general terms the % of folks who ever need to replace a bladder on a FIT, Charger, Roughcut, Helm, DVO etc, etc, bladder damper is so minuscule as to be essentially non-existent. My proof is I've invoiced hundreds of fork services. You should be fully tearing down every fork (open bath or bled damper) at least yearly, so I wouldn't call having to bleed your damper annually a chore. Maybe an open bath wins by staying better lubricated (on the damper side) if neglected but given these forks all have ~10cc of bath oil in the air side they're still getting positively thrashed if not getting their routine lower service.