you could actually change the springs with the forks still on the bike if it wasn's so messy. No special tools required! You take the tube cap off, spacer pipe, washer and then the spring just comes out. Turn it upside down and dump all the oil out, put new oil in it, new spring, washer, spacer pipe and screw the tube cap back on. No big deal. But you have to change the fork seal so before you take anything apart you have to loosen the damper bolt at the bottom of the fork, then take it apart, take the damper bolt out and slide the damper out the top of the fork tube, use the fork tube like a slide hammer and pull the seal out.
