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Description:
- Travel: 80mm
- Travel Adjust: All-Travel
- Spring: Dual Air
- Damping: Pure Delite
- Lowers: Ovalized Magnesium IS Disc Mount and Titanium Boss
- Crown: Hollow Forged 6061 Aluminum
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Submitted by
clevengercm
a Weekend Warrior
from Dover, NJ, USA
Date Reviewed: June 27, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | your moms | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$350.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Stop reading this and buy this fork!! | | Weaknesses: | none! | | Similar Products Used: | Grind OS CRAP!!! | | Bike Setup: | Trek Homebrew | | Bottom Line: | BUY this fork! | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Jonathan Maddock
a Cross Country Rider
from Wolfeboro, NH, USA
Date Reviewed: January 22, 2008 | | Favorite Trail: | unmaintained roads | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Price Paid: |
$350.00 | | Purchased At: | Ebay | | Strengths: | Weight,& limited travel & good looks. I have a 1993 steel Stumpjumper with a Future Shock (Mag 21). This fork comes the closest to mainting the bike geometry. It's super light and very appropriate for the intense XC rides I like to do. | | Weaknesses: | Don't know yet. | | Similar Products Used: | Future Shock. | | Bike Setup: | Steel Stump frame, XT cranks, XTR rings, all the rest XT except front derailure is XTR. Home made wheels with Mavic rims & White hubs. The rest is nondescript other than being good XC beater components. I keep hanging new stuff on this frame & I see no reason to switch it out. | | Bottom Line: | Good karma on this. The Sid Race is silver just like my old Future Shock. Right now it's XC ski season and lots of ice & snow, so no riding yet. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
kayhan arica
a Racer
from Turkey
Date Reviewed: November 7, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$550.00 | | Purchased At: | delta bike | | Strengths: | very light but reliable and works perfect | | Weaknesses: | it stretchs when breaking | | Similar Products Used: | maniotu comp axel | | Bike Setup: | corratec frame tetktro disc brake xt crank set | | Bottom Line: | perfect | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Erhan Doganer
a Cross Country Rider
from Turkey
Date Reviewed: October 4, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$420.00 | | Purchased At: | Delta Bisiklet | | Strengths: | very light and strong | | Similar Products Used: | Rock Shox Reba sl, RST Omega SL | | Bottom Line: | This fork is the best fork I've ever seen... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Yeop Azman
a Cross Country Rider
from Zagreb, Croatia
Date Reviewed: August 7, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Crabtree Lake; Raleigh, NC | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$505.00 | | Purchased At: | Maraton Bikes in Slovenia | | Strengths: | Coming from riding a Judy XC, I can notice a big difference. Mainly in weight. My front end rides up quickly and I ended up doing a few unintentional wheelies going uphill. The SID race took most of what I gave it so far: stairs, 3 foot jumps, dirt trails and the usual other XC things. I'm a light person (66kg, 145lbs) so I don't bottom out my fork too often. Thus it's a great fork for me! | | Weaknesses: | Only has rebound adjustment, which isn't really a weekness because I'm light. Could maybe use a lockout... Then again, I've never really used a lockout. | | Similar Products Used: | 2001 Judy XC; 2000 Manitou Mars CL (another great light fork that couldn't take anything) | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Schwinn Homegrown; XTR shifters; XT components; XT/mavic 517 wheels; Easton carbon components; Easton aluminium stem; Ahead headset. | | Bottom Line: | Worth the money I paid for! I'm a weight junkie! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! But look for a stronger fork if you are a heavier rider. I would suggest the Fox's. I was about to buy one, but it was 100EU more! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Steven
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: August 6, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Cannock Chase | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | MerlinCycles.co.uk for £225 | | Strengths: | Extremely lightweight (1.3kg), very plush and instant response to bumps; making them great at coping with high speeds. Great value considering they are the lightest fork on the market; weighing less than the more expensive SID Team and World Cup and I only paid £225 (RRP £330).
They feel like they have more travel than the 78mm I get from mine. This is because the first 2/3rds of the travel is soft and the last 1/3rd of the travel stiffens quite quickly to prevent any harsh bottoming-out, meaning they cope very well with the small to medium bumps you get on a XC trail. | | Weaknesses: | They don't cope too well with large bumps that cause the fork to quickly use the soft 2/3rds of travel and hit the last 1/3rd of travel which quickly stiffens, but if you ride well; using your arms to help absorb the bump, then this is barely a problem at all, and they are not designed for big hits anyway.
They're flexy; I'm using Formula Oro K24 brakes with 160mm rotors, and you can definately see the fork felexing under braking (I wouldn't recommend more than 160mm disc brake rotors). Whilst riding I don't notice the flexing at all, but I only weigh 59kg, so I'd be hessitant to buy them if I was a heavy rider (I think Rebas would be more suitable).
The Pure Delite damping started to limit the travel after 1 or 2 months of riding: reducing the travel from 78mm to 60mm. I fixed this by servicing the Pure Delite damping assembly; replacing the oil and repositioning the internals. I think it was a lack of oil which caused the internal floating piston to drop out of place and limit the travel, but I never noticed any oil leaking, so I assume there wasn't enough oil when manufactured. They have been perfect for the last month since servicing, which was easy to perform, following Rockshox's service guide. | | Similar Products Used: | Marzocchi Flylight Air 2000, Rockshox Judy XC 2001. | | Bike Setup: | I'm using them on a Giant XTC 07 with Formula Oro K24 discs and XC717 disc rims on Hope Pro 2 hubs. | | Bottom Line: | Great forks for lightweight XC riders looking for a lightweight fork for their hardtail. I'd recommend a fork with more travel you're using a soft-tail and a stiffer fork if you're a heavy rider. Don't expect them to cope with more than they were designed for. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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