Submitted by
chestercospinner
a Weekend Warrior
from Eagleville, PA Date Reviewed: October 28, 2009
Favorite Trail:
slim shady
Duration Product Used:
3 months
Price Paid:
$589.00
Purchased At:
Red Barn Cycles
Strengths:
first off not sure how this other reviewer got this fork on Greenfish for $549, their advertised price is $729 and that's for the 9mm qr not even the 15mm ta. Call Chad at Redbarn! Love this fork so far (3 months of use) lots of adjust-ability that you can actually feel. Very stiff on landings and turns at speed. The 15mm TA is excellent paired with my CKing front hub, just knowing it's there has improved my confidence, qr is roadie crap. love it on my 08 turner 5.5 spot an AM rock garden wrecking ball. 3.7 lbs = lightweight in my mind for an 140mm fork with 15mm ta too.
Weaknesses:
no handle bar remote lockout would be a neg w/some, I guess it would be nice, but it climbs very well in full travel, no issues at all here. probably getting 135mm of travel out of the 140 advertised. nothing new here with any fork mfr.
a good fork, stiff, light weight, great for trail bikes to light/med duty freeride stuff.
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Submitted by
Gokart2
a Weekend Warrior
from Michigan Date Reviewed: July 8, 2009
Favorite Trail:
Poto or Highland
Duration Product Used:
Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$542.00
Purchased At:
Greenfishsports.com
Strengths:
Light, highly adjustable, swallows up everything
Weaknesses:
Color, skewer handle and dropouts interfer with each other (very minor complaint, not a problem by any means), fork adjustments hit frame when handles bars try spinning around (again..very minor complaint, not a problem by any means)
Similar Products Used:
This is a replacement for a 06 Manitou Nixon Comp
Bike Setup:
Fisher Fat Possum LX, Cane Creek S8, Race Face Evolve DH crank, Truvativ chainguide (9 speed DH setup), kenda excavators, Fox RP23 on the way (Manitou Split RP on it now).
Bottom Line:
This is for the regular Q/R version. Coming from a spring style fork with only rebound adjustment... this thing absolutly rocks. And this lockout stuff is amazing! Climbs are totally different, much better now. This fork gobbles the little stuff and the drops /big stuff are like marshmellows now. Very easily adjustable, lockout on the fly is much easier then i thought itwas goning to be. The fork has out done my expectations so far. If its this good now, i cant wait to see what PUSH can do to it in the future. I recommend this for hard XC and AM riding, i will be testing DH next month. Greenfishsports.com had an unbeatable price, free s/h (2 days), free t-shirt, free gift pack, and great customer service. Two thumbs up for them! I wouldn't have bought it for the price everyone else has it, only cause i'm poor. But i think its worth it regardless.
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