Submitted by
forrest25
a Cross Country Rider
from aviano Date Reviewed: August 14, 2009
Favorite Trail:
anything going down
Duration Product Used:
6 months
Price Paid:
$680.00
Purchased At:
jensonusa
Strengths:
good looks, durability, light weight,
Weaknesses:
none
Bike Setup:
Santa Cruz Blur LT (size LG), Fox RP23 in the rear.
Bottom Line:
I'm sure any FOX product is great, but these vanillas are the heat. I paid the extra money and I got the 15mm QR and if you don't mind looking around for a hub to fit it, I would do the same. The Shocks absorb anything you throw at them. Ive 5ft drop offs or rocks in the middle of the trail, they soak up everything. Really easy to adjust the lockout and the rebound. Do your self a favor and spend the extra money and get yourself some vanillas.
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Submitted by
lightplay
a Cross Country Rider
from Sparta NJ Date Reviewed: August 7, 2008
Favorite Trail:
Kittatinny, Allamuchy
Duration Product Used:
Less than 1 month
Purchased At:
cycleworks
Strengths:
Ease of setup and use.
Weaknesses:
None so far
Similar Products Used:
Pike, Reba race, Reba, Manitou tcp+
Bike Setup:
Giant Reign 05.
Bottom Line:
AN excellent fork. After three air forks, the last one (pike) developed a squeaky crown, I decided to go back to a coil. The vanilla rlc is very easy to set up. No more adjusting air pressures and contaminating the front hydros with sprits of oil. I dialed in sag, set blow off and rebound and I'm done. I forgot how smooth a coil fork is. It really matches the rear shock (swinger 3way) on the reign, I never could really balance the front and rear to my liking. That is a thing of the past. I now can go from 15% to 25% sag by adjusting prelode with a couple of turns and adding or subtracting 10 psi in the back. Very simple. What really amazes me with the vanilla is the compression circuit. VERY effective. 8 click setting but a huge differance between 1 and 8. I have been running at 20% sag and position 2 and experience no brake dive or front end diving in fast g turns. I did bottom the fork out off of a four foot'r to flat at speed, went back, added a couple of clicks compression and the fork reacted accordingly, no more bottom out. This really made my day. I now am able to run with more sag and adjust "compression" for the type of trail I am going to ride on a given day. No more added air to plus and minus chambers for a given ride. a Big plus in my book. For a fork that is so easy to setup there is heaps of high performance.
I just hope it stays together, time will tell.
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