Submitted by
Ethan
a Weekend Warrior
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Date Reviewed: June 8, 2008
Favorite Trail:
the don
Duration Product Used:
6 months
Price Paid:
$325.00
Purchased At:
cycle motive
Strengths:
light, stiff, looks good, 80mm, good price
Weaknesses:
rebound could work better, started leaking oil after 2 months got really soft
Similar Products Used:
06 marzocchi dirt jam, argyle 318, gold label 2's
Bike Setup:
gaint stp ss
gold label 1
juicy 7
hussefelt cranks
mavic 721 and atomlab p1mp
Bottom Line:
when I first purchased these they were great nice and stiff and they were great for the first 2 months. During a ride in the 2nd month i heard a popping noise and oil slowly started leaking out of the rebound knob. This happend at the ed of the season. I started riding again in april this year and it was still leaking oil. The fork was getting to be more sticky and wasn't as stiff any more, It now only goes down 20mm and then it just stops and it won't move. This was probably avoidable if i just took it into a shop to get it looked at by i just never did as it stopped leaking for a while. Over all it is a good fork but just take care of it and you will be fine.
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Submitted by
milan
a Weekend Warrior
from UK Date Reviewed: March 2, 2007
Duration Product Used:
3 months
Price Paid:
$380.00
Strengths:
lightweight (for jump forks) cheap (£190 payed) reliable (so far anyway) perfect feeling to them (x firm springs as standard) perfect travel (80mm) look good (all black) relatively simple (coil and oil with rebound adjustment, nothing else to worry about) 2 yr warrenty in europe
Weaknesses:
crown could be thicker, not as thick as on the shermans i had before (snapped at the leg)
Similar Products Used:
sherman frieflies, fox vanilla, psylos, z1's, dj3 etc
Bike Setup:
24' wheels singlespeed rear v brake profile 3 piece cranks hope hubs pro taper bars etc
Bottom Line:
brillant fork for dirt jump and street and skatepark, would be good for 4x to as pretty light havent had them that long, but these are my fav jump forks. not too bothered if they break cause of the warrenty bottom word; excelent!
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Submitted by
Erik Lavergren
a Weekend Warrior
from b.c. canada Date Reviewed: September 13, 2006
Duration Product Used:
Less than 1 month
Price Paid:
$250.00
Strengths:
stong fork, looks cool, stiff which is good, has rebound adjustment
Weaknesses:
only available in 80 or 100mm travel
Bike Setup:
nice
Bottom Line:
these forks r very good. i have a 4 8" drop and the gap is 7 feet and they held up to it. there r stiff as hell but there startin to get squshie. they have rebound adjustment. So far these forks have treated me nice. i hope they dont explod like my other fork did
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