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White Brothers FR3 Front Shock
Product Description
User Reviews
Submitted by
SDTrailKing
a Weekend Warrior
from San Diego, Ca USA Date Reviewed: December 7, 2008 Strengths: Strong, Light, Stiff, Easy Maintenance Weaknesses: No Lockout Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $160.00 Purchased At: Craigslist Similar Products Used: RockShox Psylo, Marzocchi Bomber, Marzocchi Drop-Off Bike Setup: 2003 Santa Cruz Blur LT
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colin McCarthy
a Downhiller
from Eugene, OR, USA Date Reviewed: August 20, 2001 Strengths: stiffness, quality of travel, damping, ease of maintenance, Weaknesses: some people won't like the dual crowns Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Shotgun Creek DH Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $600.00 Purchased At: Copeland's Sports Similar Products Used: Manitous, Marzocchi Z1, psylo Bike Setup: dual slalom/freerie bike  
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josh
a Downhiller
from way done there Date Reviewed: June 22, 2001 Strengths: great overall, i dont know what people are talking about stiction? does fine on 8 footers Weaknesses: cust. service blows and it took me 2 months to get a new cartridge. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $400.00 Purchased At: western cycle Similar Products Used: everything Bike Setup: santa cruz heckler 
Submitted by
Jason Mansfield
a Downhiller
from VA Date Reviewed: May 11, 2001 Strengths: Its strong for a light fork, easy to work on and service. Weaknesses: A litle flexy Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Water Shed Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $400.00 Purchased At: MTBR Similar Products Used: Boxxer, Stratos S7, Stratos SS8, Headshok's and all other forks. Bike Setup: Cannondale SuperV 1000 FR. FR<3, King, Raceface,Syncros, KUjo's, Kore and XT
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jason samansky
a Downhiller
from sacto, cali Date Reviewed: February 26, 2001 Strengths: super ridgid and fairly plush, it can also take a gozz.3.0 tire,jumped it off a 8ft drop and landed on front end,no seals blew.oh yeah adjustable ride hight. Weaknesses: fair amount of stiction,hard to find rebuild kit,high maintance,no rebound adjustment(external),company f ed me on schemematics still have not got them. thanks. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: sticks and stones(thats right) Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $401.00 Purchased At: my shop(my old job still get the hook up) Similar Products Used: name one! just long travel dh forks superstar,boxxer,dh3,shiver............ Bike Setup: old school beater frame hard tail,full xtr,monkey bar,tomac BSH stem,intense 2.75 tires, DA FREERIDEMACHINE,yes it is a hooptie.
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Mark Capprizioski
a Weekend Warrior
from Laguna Hills Date Reviewed: January 6, 2001 Strengths: Super Stiff!!! Great action. Looks reely cool. Weaknesses: Seems to have a little stiction after a few rides, WB says that the fork need 100mi. of break in time? Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Mystic Cliffs Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $590.00 Purchased At: Helens Cycles Similar Products Used: Marzocchi Bomber Z1 Bike Setup: Santa Cruz Bullit, XTR, Race Face, Discs, etc.
Submitted by
Dale Quarton
a Cross Country Rider
from Orange Date Reviewed: December 26, 2000 Strengths: Stiff. Lighter than Marzocchi Jr. T Weaknesses: As usual, this WB fork develops stiction after a couple of rides unless you pry up the seals and gob lubricant in the area between the seal and the legs. After a wet ride, the fork would hardly work at all. You can ride a marzocchi for years and never touch it. That is how a fork should work. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Coopers Run Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $460.00 Purchased At: WB Similar Products Used: SC90, DC110 Bike Setup: GT LTS 1000, all the BS.
Submitted by
Mike
a Weekend Warrior
from Concord, CA Date Reviewed: November 17, 2000 Strengths: Very plush and strong. Enough travel for free ridin'. Weaknesses: Only problem was the white plastic spacer between the 2 springs were getting stuck causing the shock to be sticky. Shaved the spacers down and there is no more stiky feelin.' Customer service is really bad. I work in quality control for a large company and the service usually provided by large companies suck. The kind of service WB's provides are worse. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Limeridge Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $500.00 Similar Products Used: WB DH118, Rock shox Bike Setup: 99 Cannondale Super V. Shimano XT Discs brakes. MRP chain guide, IRC kujo 2.35, Rhyno lite rims.
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Guillermo Islas
a Weekend Warrior
from Mexico City Date Reviewed: October 30, 2000 Strengths: Super stiff, plush and quick responsive downhilling, light and good looking, climbs OK.It is the best freeride fork ever. Weaknesses: A lot of problems with cartrige, and rebuilt it my self. I do believe that WB should RECALL!!! and replace them ASAP. It is a shame that such an awesome fork fabricators are such an a...holes with the quality control and the customer service!!! Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Any volcano around the valley Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $560.00 Purchased At: cambria Similar Products Used: Marzochi z1-bam, Marzochi z1QR-20, RockShox SID-LT, Marzochi Mr-T, Manitou Xvert-super Bike Setup: 1997 Intence uzzi-DH /enduro, XTR,mavic,Hayes
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david d
a Downhiller
from MA Date Reviewed: August 13, 2000 Strengths: plush, stiff, really good looking. and light weight. best fork on the market for freeride, and realitivly cheap Weaknesses: easy to dent legs, and white brothers custemer service SUCKS. its basicaly non existent. and yes. my FR3 did also come with a messed up cartridge. and they did replace it, but it took them 5 weeks to send me the cartrige, after calling them EVERY day. if their forks were not SO awsome, i would not have bought a WHITE brothers. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: E Shore Duration Product Used: 3 months Similar Products Used: X-Vert R. ZOke Jr. T Bike Setup: Santa cruz heckler
Submitted by
Sean
a Weekend Warrior
from Aliso Viejo, CA Date Reviewed: July 25, 2000 Strengths: This fork is very stiff (due to triple clamp) and pretty looking. The travel is just right (not to much and not to little) for climbing and descending fast. Weaknesses: The internal hardbody cartridge was reportedly assembled incorrectly by the manaufacturer prior to insertion into the FR-3. I ended up losing most of the travel and the fork would stick after sitting for a while. White Brothers replaced the cartridge (thanks Rob) with no questions, however if they knew that the cartridge was built incorrectly, why didn't White Brothers issue a recall? Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Hair & Nail Duration Product Used: 6 months Similar Products Used: 1998 Judy XL Bike Setup: Santa Cruz Bullet with XT components
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