Could someone please measure the exposed length of chrome on their fork legs?

Looking at a TiN coating, but will likely restrict it to the articulating surface length only.

you also need to capture the negative travel amount as well (when the suspension goes up).

I can't help because I'm not in front of my bike. The stroke length itself wouldn't be more than 200mm though is my guess

Hey Greggo,

Where in Melbourne are you? I have a couple of forks on the shelve in bits as well as a recently rebuilt set on the 21 you can have a look at to get the measurements you are chasing. I am in Eltham btw.

Cheers

you need to coat the whole fork, the point of TiN coating is to reduce friction so it has to extend all the way to the teflon bushing which is not visible

The bush certinaly doesn't go past the lower triple clamp, so coating the whole fork isn't needed.

Anyone know if the tube from an NC29 (uses the same bushes, but lacks the slight indent at the base like the NSR one which seems to have no discernable purpose), same length (I think), same diameter, can be used in the NSR?

I have a pair of NC29 forks with excellent chrome.

thought you were gonna coat the visible part only, thus my comments

Can't help you with NC29