GPX Black Label Axle

KtmJono_777 · Oct 5, 2014

Hi all. Just doing up my bike for sale and found out that I've done something disturbingly incorrect. I purchased a set of Black Labels and when installing them I have either used the incorrect axle or left out a bushing (whether it exists in there I'm not sure). Obviously I had a brain failure on installation which was done a few years ago now. This bike hasn't seen much action luckily.. Like maybe 4 or 5 hours run time max.

Anyway as you will see in the pics the floating side (non disk side) of the axle is waaaay too small for the clamp. In fact the smooth shank of the axle only travels halfway into the fork clamp, the other half is the threads!! Stupidly I never realised on installation and just bolted it together. As you can see this has caused the skinny axle to move around in there and cause some wear marks from nut on the fork clamp.

This is really stupid and dangerous and I can't understand how I missed this when I put them in initially. It appears that this may be the axle from the original forks. I believe I must have tossed the axle that came with the GPX's from new.

Can anyone show me what a genuine GPX axle looks like? Hopefully I can buy one or these forks will be a waste!!

Pics below. Thanks.

zwebx · Oct 5, 2014

I purchased my axle from motorbike city.. Only place i could find them.
You need to use the new axle i wouldn't run that one.. could damage the forks if the legs decide to separate

KtmJono_777 · Oct 5, 2014

Thanks. So you can buy just the axle for these forks then? I found another post on here of someones GPX's and it definitely has a different axle to the one I'm using. It was a stupid mistake on my part. I'll contact Motorbike City this week and see if they can hook me up.

Im really lucky that nothing was damaged from this mistake, or that it didn't fail!!