That sounds like a definite no brainer Terry. Paying a hundred bucks for a nice ride across the Alabama and Georgia countryside, the privilege of seeing a cool shop and not having to take the nose of the bike all apart is short money for great return. Hell, I'd almost ride there from here some weekend for that labor rate.
Hmmm, wonder if some nice spring three day weekend I could go from here to B-ham on a Friday and they could two bikes on a Saturday [smiley=nixweiss.gif] ? Mine could even be worked on a little bit ahead of time as I could send them the flamed forks that will be the ones to eventually go on the bike.
In my conversation with them, I asked them about the Saturday thing...he said they are sometimes "there" but don't do any work of this type...must just do the desk work. But, if a person were going over to Myrtle Beach, or coming to B'ham for the AMA Superbike Races in late April, that person could zip over or through without too much out of the way time. With your situation, the time needed there would probably be less. He told me that on my bike, if I got it there at 9:00AM, it would probably take until about 3 to get it all done. So, it's pretty much an all day thing. Normally, they charge $150 for a disassembly/assembly of the fork itself, but he said if I bought the whole thing, he would waive that, so it would be the 1 bill for them taking the front of the bike off. The guy said I would be "amazed" at the difference in the way the bike felt in every circumstance, and would particularly notice a huge difference when pushing the bike on twisty roads. The diving and twisting feeling is not comforting when pushing the bike through a turn, and when the suspension settles into the turn, it's compressed a good bit on the front end, causing a bit of material removal on the bottom of the board supports. It's not really scarey or anything, just doesn't feel solid enough to suit my tastes.
With all our pals here from the Hot'Lanta area, I'll bet we could get something worked out....