Pace RC35 - show us yours & any knowledge (2024)

I acquired a set of these on bike a while back, and they had been locked out by previous owner. To my delight, PACE HQ still have parts for them and do full factory service, so off they went, came back good as new with fresh elastomers and seals.

In chatting with the mechanics over the phone when done, they said they hadn’t seen any in ages and seemed quite impressed with them. They were a small batch of the ‘Iridescent pink leg logo’ versions. One of them seemed to remember making these in small number at the end of 1992 and partly into early 1993.

love a bit of original knowledge on what would have been pace first carbon suspension fork.

There’s also a set for sale on eBay at the momen, along with a set that the original owner says he had built to order gold stanchion legs as a one off set.

I also note this variant is missing from the Pace model time line. So if you have any info generally about the RC35, feel free to share it here.

Mine are on a thread somewhere on here, plenty of other threads with Pace history/info too. Tim @justbackdated is the man to fill any gaps.

Here is a thread showing my lower legs with the bonded canti studs and original decals pg1, and some interesting history from jbd on pg2...

I’ve had a pair tucked away for a little while that I’ve been meaning to open up to inspect.
They move up and down, but I’d noticed that when I turned them upside down, there was a ‘thunk’ caused by something moving inside one of the legs…

Here’s what I found!

The bump stop elastomers we’re there, almost intact, but the rest appears to be pieces of garden hose / rubber tubing!

Otherwise pretty clean inside, so I’ll get some new elastomers ordered and installed ready to release this set back into the wild

Once A Hero said:

I’ve had a pair tucked away for a little while that I’ve been meaning to open up to inspect.
They move up and down, but I’d noticed that when I turned them upside down, there was a ‘thunk’ caused by something moving inside one of the legs…

Here’s what I found!
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The bump stop elastomers we’re there, almost intact, but the rest appears to be pieces of garden hose / rubber tubing!

Otherwise pretty clean inside, so I’ll get some new elastomers ordered and installed ready to release this set back into the wild

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Mine apparently had rubber trainer soles in them

This is getting funny here, "look what strange things I've found in the legs of an old suspension fork" .

I can add one too:
The previous owner has stuffed in the RC35 I've bought a while ago very strong coils. Those look to me like from hydraulic lifters of a big diesel engine, probably from a Truck?
As they aren't long enough, he has added some steel BMX pegs, sliced into smaller pieces.

Sure, this wasn't working at all, those coils allowed zero travel, moreover all this crap made the fork very heavy too.

It's now nice and working well again.