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Nevada 29er
a Cross Country Rider
from Reno, NV Date Reviewed: September 4, 2009
Duration Product Used:
1 Year
Price Paid:
$500.00
Strengths:
Very nice, stiff, tunable fork, with one major problem.
Weaknesses:
Maxle is not compatible with a variety of hubs such as DT Swiss 440 and Hadley 20mm. The brake rotor is so close to the post mounts, the brake rubs continuously. Have a Hope Pro II on another bike which seems to work, but this shouldn't be an issue!
Great fork, too bad Sram has their head up their a** when it comes to compatibility, and thats with their own brakes!
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Submitted by
eric.nm
a Weekend Warrior
from Santa Fe, NM Date Reviewed: July 21, 2009
Favorite Trail:
High Desert Trail, Gallup, NM
Duration Product Used:
3 months
Price Paid:
$675.00
Purchased At:
Mellow Velo bikes
Strengths:
1) Ultra-plush yet practically zero bob unless wide open and standing climbing; perfect suspension at low- and high-speed
2) Compression damping settings are perfect and easy to adjust on-the-fly
3) Floodgate insanely easy to reach on top of right stanchion (do you hear that Fox?)
4) Stiff / tracks very, very well
5) Oozes quality / definitely equals (surpasses?) Fox forks
6) Your LBS can work on it, if needed (unlike Fox forks)
7) Idiot proof to set up / set in and forget it
8) Perfection?!?
Weaknesses:
the 2009 decals are nowhere nearly as cool as the 2008 ones ; )
Similar Products Used:
Fox 120 RLC; Fox F100X (multiple); Fox F80X; Fox Vanilla 100 RLC; Marzocchi Marathon 120 XC; Marzocchi MX Pro ETA; and much earlier (2000-2002) Rock Shox and Manitou forks
Bike Setup:
Intense Spider 29 / 2009 Reba Team (with Black Box internals) / Stans ZTR 355 29er with DT 240S hubs / Race Face Deus XC cockpit / X-9 RD + triggers / SLX FD / XTR cranks / XT cassette / Wipperman / King HS / Specialized The Captain 2Bliss with Stan's
Bottom Line:
1) I have been (and still am) blown away by the quality of this fork. On a 29er, it feels like five or six inches of travel on my (former) 26ers. Its is easily as bottomless, plush, stiff, and tunable as any Fox I've ever had, and almost certainly BETTER overall.
2) The on-the-fly settings can be done with a no-look twist of the compression damping / lockout lever (seven settings which are actually individually distinguishable / noticeable).
3) Rebound adjustment is on the bottom of the right fork leg where it belongs (honestly, has anyone in the history of mountain biking ever needed to adjust rebound while actually riding? Apparently, Fox agrees because I hear for 2010 the threshold / blow-off knob that has been marooned on the bottom of the right leg of Fox forks forever is finally moving to the top of the right, like the Reba.)
4) The best review I've seen of the 2009 Reba Team is Justin Steiner's in Dirt Rag #141; check it out under the Stuff section online @ www.dirtragmag.com
5) THM: There is no way I'll resist the siren call of a second 2009 Reba Team for my steel 29er hardtail. Fox Racing who?
6) PS: Bye-bye Fox (Think Sram X-0 beating XTR at its own game back in 2006)
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Submitted by
D90fan
a Weekend Warrior
from Highland, UT, USA Date Reviewed: April 20, 2009
Favorite Trail:
Amassa Back
Duration Product Used:
Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$800.00
Purchased At:
LBS
Strengths:
Lateral stiffness, Lots of tuning adjustment
Weaknesses:
U-Turn
Similar Products Used:
Fox F29, Reba 29 Race
Bike Setup:
Pivot 429, Top Line SRAM, DT240S, Stans Flow
Bottom Line:
I bought the fork with the u-turn travel adjust, don't recommend it at all. The u-turn function began having problems after about 20 miles. SRAM sent a new left cartridge assembly, the fork was rebuilt by my LBS, worked beautifully for another 50 miles then started having problems again. I'm done with the U-turn. Cool idea, but not worth the hassle its been causing me. SRAM customer service is phenomenal! They are sending me a new non u-turn version with a set of cranks to make up for the price difference between the forks. I haven't had the fork very long, but I've taken it through a variety of terrain near home, in Moab, and in Fruita. It handles rough and technical terrain well very, no noticeable flex.
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