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progressing xc, am... dh rider
a Cross Country Rider
from sd, ca
Date Reviewed: May 31, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | dixon lake | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$350.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | GREAT fork! (85-130)426 U-turn and lockout are awesome though a little time consuming, well worth it. Very versatile! Endless ways to adjust travel and dampening depending on riding style and/or trail. Agressive XC rider...SMOOTH! on small jumps and decent downhill runs as thats all that ive tried with my riding style | | Weaknesses: | little noisy until broken in but otherwise FLAWLESS!!!!!!! | | Similar Products Used: | j4, older sr suntour?!?!? | | Bike Setup: | gt i drive 5, sram x.9/x.0, m545 pedals, sun rhyno, velociraptors | | Bottom Line: | with limited experience...kicks ass! no need for anything else
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Submitted by
mig
a Cross Country Rider
from Scotland
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Spooky woods | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | Alpine | | Strengths: | adjutsability, Lockout | | Weaknesses: | Kicker type jumps | | Similar Products Used: | Marzocchi Marathon SL 120mm | | Bike Setup: | Scott G zero, DT swiss 210L shock, hope mono mini | | Bottom Line: | Love these forks, I held off for some time before submitting a review, no reliabilty problems, experienced bottoming out a few times so started running them 10psi higher that the chart indicated. the only recurring problem being the shock trying to soak up the lipp of the jump even with compression before take off resulting in scary front wheel landings. (anyone advise on this one please). New frame next and will keep these forks. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Cory Nelson
a Cross Country Rider
from 5449 Wil-Acre Dr.
Date Reviewed: February 28, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$475.00 | | Purchased At: | Rockford Bicycle Company | | Strengths: | Great Fork, good travel, easy to adjust, lightweight | | Weaknesses: | a couple problems with poplock | | Similar Products Used: | MArazocci Drop off | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher G.E.D, Single Speeed | | Bottom Line: | best fork ever owned | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Clinton
a Weekend Warrior
from Jacksonville, FL
Date Reviewed: February 15, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tom Brown | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$400.00 | | Purchased At: | Bikesdirect | | Strengths: | Plenty of adjustment to get what you want out of it. Soaks up alot of punishment. | | Weaknesses: | Stickers used for the writing are coming off | | Bike Setup: | Motobecane Fantom Comp | | Bottom Line: | Great all around fork for cross country or getting alittle crazy. The lock out is great. U-turn is a great tool to talior the shock to the type of riding you will be doing at that particular moment. Forks are a pricey component so it is nice to be able to say I got my moneys worth with this shock. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jared Kinder
a Weekend Warrior
from Mission Viejo, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: January 6, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Rock-It | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | Sport Chalet Employee Purchase | | Strengths: | Many | | Weaknesses: | Have to stop to adjust travel with U-turn, no a big deal. I'm fat and have to stope before climbs anyway. | | Similar Products Used: | Marz Jr.T, Marz 888, Marz Z 150, Marz Z1, Rock Shox Pike, Fox Float. | | Bike Setup: | marin Wolf Ridge frame. Custom mix of parts | | Bottom Line: | Great trail fork, set it up on the supple side I use about 20lbs more in the negative side and it feels great. Very stong, will accept an 8 inch rotor if you want it too. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tomas
a
from Gothenburg, Sweden
Date Reviewed: January 3, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | hibike.de | | Strengths: | Plush feeling, weight, price, adjustable travel | | Weaknesses: | Dives too much (linear travel) for my weight | | Similar Products Used: | Marzocchi, Manitou, Fox | | Bike Setup: | All mountain bike | | Bottom Line: | This is a review of a 2006 RS Revelation 426 U-turn Air + poploc remote.
The forks travel is very plush for a air based system, feels smooth and nice. Reasonably stiff for its low weight. Nice to be able to adjust travel between 100-130mm. The remote poploc is a "nice to have" feature but not really needed in my opinion, depends on what kind of trails you ride on I guess.
I agree with a previous reviewer that the travel feels very linear and dives too much on slower technical sections on the trail. Tried with different positive+negative air pressures but no improvement. Considering to swap to the coil version of the Revelation and hope it will handle better in this sense.
Can't say much about long term reliability but during these 3 months I haven't had any mechanical issues or problems.
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Submitted by
Steve
a Cross Country Rider
from Belgium
Date Reviewed: December 11, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Well made, value for money, stiff, adjustable. | | Weaknesses: | Remote Poplock with dial, U turn jammed. | | Similar Products Used: | Manitou Splice, RS Reba | | Bike Setup: | Cotic Soul, LX/XT, Formula Oro's... | | Bottom Line: | I bought these I had a RS Reba which came on my full sus bike which I liked plus I needed a fork which was adjustable between 100 and 130mm. This just seemed perfect and you know what, it is. Does what the Reba does, ie you don't know it's there, it soaks the stuff up and lets you get on with the riding.
I have had two problems though:-
1) After a crash the remote poploc snapped off the handle bars into two pieces (awaiting a new one), but I will only get the lockout, didn't really notice the benifit of the dial thingy and all I really want is lockout for climbs.
2) After a 2 months the u turn dial got stuck, and I couldn't wind the fork out past 115mm. Nothing needed replacing just needed a quick service, I'm hoping this isn't going to be a long term reliabillity problem.
If it wasn't for the fact it needed a service so soon I'd give 5/5 chillis. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike LeBlanc
a Cross Country Rider
from Plymouth, NH
Date Reviewed: November 2, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$425.00 | | Purchased At: | universal | | Strengths: | Light! Extreamly adjustable, So many diffrent ways you can set this fork up to accomidate many diffrent conditions. U-turn is great albiet time consuming. Excellent build quality, have had no issues with service or warranty problems. | | Weaknesses: | Low speed damping is pretty much Bad. Mid to high speed its great. Unfortunatly for 90% of the riding I do in the Northeast US this fork simply does not work that well, mainly in low speed tecnical terrein; it has atendency to blow through the travel or dive abruptly in these situations, sending your weight to far forward.I guess it feels to linear. I do not find this fork to be as stiff as everyone is claiming. | | Similar Products Used: | rockshox mag 21,Judy xc. Specialized future shock,
Marzocchi z2, xfly and MX pro eta 05'
Fox vanilla 130 | | Bike Setup: | Specialized fsr 120 expert with Rev. (great match) | | Bottom Line: | I really want to like this fork, and I do, but I cant get over its poor low speed handling in the techy situations we have here in NH. Rock gardens, roots, etc. where you are using your 1st or second gear. My Marzocchi mx pro was sooo much better in these situaitons that I am switching back to a Mazzocchi coil/air fork. I actually think the Marzocchi was stiffer as well. I have tried every possible neg/pos air combination but I think the bottom line for me is that an air fork simply cannot match the feel of a coil, and Marzocchi's air and coil is the best of both worlds for my type of riding. The fork
(Revelatoin) just feels to linear for my taste.
Aside from this gripe, I think this fork is great. I was in CO for 2 months this summer riding fast single track and the fork was perfect over just about any type of terrrein I encountered. This fork is deserving of the great reviews it has recieved as it is a great value compared to Fox's offerings and it has excellent build quality. However for me Marzocchi makes the best handling fork out there. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Simon
a Weekend Warrior
from Montreal
Date Reviewed: October 31, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Les Crans at St-Felicien, QC | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Bike Setup: | Santa Cruz Blur LT | | Bottom Line: | It is my first 'real' fork and so far I love it. It is very rigid, very plush and quite light. I have a 426 Air U-turn and so far the locking works well, as the adjustment. Overall the fork have a nice solid feel and gives me a lot of confidence. I would recommend this fork! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Rich
a Racer
from UK
Date Reviewed: October 19, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | canyon | | Strengths: | Adjustability, stiffness, plush travel, price, lockout, easy set-up, that solid "german car" feel etc etc etc | | Weaknesses: | I guess this is a generic rockshox dual air problem - the negative air valve is very close to the disc rotar. Let air out and you get a bit of oil squirted over your disc. As long as you're aware of it, this isn't really a problem though.
The infitesimally small travel gradations mean you have to spend approx 20s riding one handed turning the dial to go from 100mm to 130mm of travel and vice versa. This doesn't sound like much hassle, but it's enough to make me only adjust the travel if I know there's a really long climb coming up.
The solid german car feel doesn't extend as far as the poplock! It works fine though.
| | Bike Setup: | Canyon Nerve ES5 Stock components | | Bottom Line: | Buy it! Unable to comment on durability, but have had no problems in 3 weeks.
With the negative air set right you just glide over the tree roots & smaller rocks like you're floating on air, while the 130mm travel still allows it to take the big hits. Turn the travel down to 100mm and the front end of your bike is lowered making the riding position and travel perfect for x-country riding and long climbs.
Personally, I would rather sacrifice the fine travel adjustability and just have a 3 position switch to go instantly from 100-115-130 mm travel. The current internals would require this switch to have very high gearing though, so this maybe not be practical. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kurt
a Weekend Warrior
from San Diego
Date Reviewed: October 13, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | 300 | | Strengths: | Plush, stiff, strong, remote swtich lock out | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | Fox, marz, manitou | | Bike Setup: | Ellsworth Epiphany, fox RP23, Chris King all around, Sram. | | Bottom Line: | Bravo, Rock Shox, Bravo! This fork is amazing. Considering I wrote you off 3 years ago after have a POS unnamed product of yours, this one tops them all. Fox has nothing that touches this fork right now. Much stiffer and plusher, its all about the set-up. I throughly impressed. I'm a true fan once again, you've brought me back. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark
a Weekend Warrior
from Chandler AZ
Date Reviewed: October 9, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | any | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$495.00 | | Purchased At: | Jenson | | Strengths: | Light, stiff, buttery smooth, and amazingly adjustable | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | Marzocchi AM-2 | | Bike Setup: | Sette Reken hartail, X-7, bb7's, Revelation | | Bottom Line: | I had a Marz AM-2 on my bike first, and it might have been slightly stiffer, but the damping of the Revelation is far superior. Since Sram took over, Rock Shox has come full circle and produce some of the best forks on the market. The adjustability of the Revelation is incredible. You can tune this fork to be whatever you need it to be. I have had this fork for just a short time, and have just recently started playing around with it's adjustments. All of the changes you make can be instantly felt, unlike my AM-2. This is easily the best fork I have ever ridden. I really can't say anything else that hasn't already been said about the Revelation. This is truly an amazing fork! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dave Barnum
a
from Longview, WA USA
Date Reviewed: September 30, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$340.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Smoothest fork I've ever ridden. It's very stiff, and tracks great. | | Weaknesses: | Hmmm..haven't found any yet. | | Similar Products Used: | Fox Talas, Manitou Nixon Elite, Rock Shox Psylo | | Bike Setup: | 06 Raleigh Phase 2. 5in travel all mountain, Swinger 3way rear shock. | | Bottom Line: | This fork is awesome. Once I got it dialed in, it was one of the best riding forks I've ever had. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
All Mountain
a Weekend Warrior
from Tasmania, Australia
Date Reviewed: September 28, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Speedgoat | | Strengths: | Stiff for a quick release.
Very smooth for an air spring.
Very adjustable.
Extremely light. | | Weaknesses: | None. | | Bike Setup: | Titus Motolite, Fox RP23, XT, Rockshox Revelation 426 Dual Air fork 130mm fixed travel. | | Bottom Line: | Tracks extremely well. Motion Control really works. Being able to adjust negative and positve air is great.
Action was smoother than I thought straight out of the box. I ran less air out of the box, and added some as it broke in. So far it lives up to my expectations. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kent West
a Cross Country Rider
from Reno, NV USA
Date Reviewed: September 17, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Moab | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | Great efficiency, Poplock lockout, stiff with no lateral play, nice adjustability. | | Weaknesses: | Hard to get a real plush feel. | | Similar Products Used: | Manitou Black | | Bike Setup: | Motobecane FS, Rock Shox Revelation front, Ario R rear, both with poplocks. | | Bottom Line: | I was really looking for a Fox fork when I found a great deal on this fork and frame. I immediately noticed the fork had very little pedal bob (due to the "Motion Control" dampening feature), and along with the nice design of the rear triangle, I had a virtually bobless 5" FS setup with lockouts on both ends. I had a hard time getting the fork feel plush and soft for long rough trail rides, which is what I do most of the time. I was getting sore wrists after 15 miles or so. I found the best plush adjustment to keep the air pressure right at the edge of being too low (about 130 PSI). This works good for me (200 pounds) but would still be too hard for most lighter riders. After riding a kind of squishy Manitou Black for the last two seasons, this fork seems pretty stiff. If you are looking for the plush feel of a Fox, this probably is not the fork for you. If you are looking for a rugged, stiff, efficient fork with a great lockout system (and about $200 less than a comparable Fox), this is the one. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Doug
a Cross Country Rider
from Enfield, NH
Date Reviewed: August 16, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | always looking | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | eBay | | Strengths: | Air springs are dampened with butter! Really nice riding shock with lots of setup options for any ride. | | Weaknesses: | Haven't found any. The rebound adjuster key pops out of the bottom of the right side. Feels like I'm going to lose it. ( I just came back from a ride, I better go check.... ) | | Similar Products Used: | Only had my stock Manitou Axel Comp. Fairly low end. | | Bike Setup: | 05 Specialized FSRxc. All stock except Bontrager carbon low rise bars, Race Face Evolve stem, Specialized Rival Ti. rail saddle. Stock wheelset that does NOT do this fork justice at all. But it makes up for the shortcomings. | | Bottom Line: | This is my first major fork purchase. I'm still learning the ins and outs of its setup. But, I can say I'm infinitely more happy with it than what I was running before. Also lost like 2 pounds when I swapped them. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Andrew Lombardi
a Weekend Warrior
from Pleasanton, CA
Date Reviewed: August 13, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$379.00 | | Purchased At: | Ebay | | Strengths: | Tracks perfect, absorbs boulders, looks awesome, adjustable to no end, poploc, and did I already mention it's incredible tracking ability? PRICE!! | | Weaknesses: | None so far, compression adjustment seems to do very little. Hopefully they last a long time. | | Similar Products Used: | RST Gilla | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Hardrock Sport, WTB Speed V seat, Rock Shox Revelation | | Bottom Line: | Buy this shock. I almost purchased the Fox Vanilla, then read these reviews and went with the Revelation. Rock Shox used to suck and had a horrible reliability record but after SRAM took over they started to kick ass. I have no regrets about my purchase and as I hear from so many people, the Revelation puts out better performance then the Fox Vanilla and Talas for a lot less. I also like the fact that I didn't give in and purchase a Fox and went with the underdog. BUY THIS FORK!! Oh yeah, I occasionally ride the local BMX coarse and the Revelation can handle it as long as I put more psi then recommended for my weight. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daryl King
a Cross Country Rider
from Boise, Idaho, USA
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Lots of em | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$500.00 | | Purchased At: | Bobs | | Strengths: | Super plush and responsive, stiff to side forces, adjustable travel, lockout feature, adjustable rebound and compression | | Weaknesses: | None | | Similar Products Used: | Fox Talas RL | | Bike Setup: | Turner 5 Spot | | Bottom Line: | Excellent trail feel with this fork, completely night and day compared to the Fox, waaaay better. Sucks up the bumps while keeping the bike completely on line, unlike the fox pogo stick POS. I have the pop loc version and found out it can be replaced with non pop lock as well but I like it.
Highly reccomended if you want a standard drop out fork, which I did on my 5 Spot. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Julian Payen
a Weekend Warrior
from Hampshire, UK
Date Reviewed: April 23, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Ellisfield | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$380.00 | | Purchased At: | Planet -X | | Strengths: | Lightweight, Strong, Stiff, great to have an adjustable poplock included where I bought it. | | Weaknesses: | none so far! | | Similar Products Used: | Pilot C | | Bike Setup: | Scott Boulder Pro, Avid 5s, XTR, Mavic Crossland | | Bottom Line: | This is a really great fork! trails ahead of the Pilot C's that came with the Scott. Has improved my riding and my fun-factor no end. Well worth the bucks, and at £200 including the adjustable poplock, a real bargain fork. I couldnt be happier so far, although only been riding them for 3 months. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark
a Weekend Warrior
from Roswell, GA
Date Reviewed: April 16, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$375.00 | | Strengths: | Stiff, adjustable | | Weaknesses: | Coming from a Vanilla, you lose some small bump compliance like any coil to air, but the big hit capability more than makes up for it | | Similar Products Used: | Fox Vanilla RLC, Float RLC | | Bike Setup: | Santa Cruz | | Bottom Line: | Some say this fork performs as well as Fox for a much lower price; I would say it's better. I was skeptical of the new Rock Shox forks but now I'd never go back. I demo'd a friend's Pike (he has the same frame I do) and honestly thought the Revelation was just as stiff as the Pike...maybe you notice the 20mm axle more on huge drops? I would recommend this fork to anyone. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
stuartie
a Cross Country Rider
from Scotland
Date Reviewed: April 8, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$300.00 | | Purchased At: | web | | Strengths: | Light, looks great, stiff, lovely aluminium adjusters, very adjustable. | | Weaknesses: | Lost the rebound adjuster knob on third ride! | | Similar Products Used: | TALAS RLC (demo), Marz. MX Comp | | Bike Setup: | Titus MotoLite 2006, RS Rev. 426, other expensive bits to make it stop and go. | | Bottom Line: | An excellent fork. Really easy to set it up for the individual rider (the rider weight/air pressure chart is one of the decals!), feels really smooth and plush, doesn't dive on steep descents provided you dial in a little compression. The rebound damping adjuster works well, even if the knob is not very securely affixed (hint: remove it and carry it instead - or just use a 2.5mm hex key). The U-turn travel adjuster is really effective and feels sweet and the whole package is killer value if you can get it for £200 as I did...:-). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chingachgook
a Cross Country Rider
from Moscow
Date Reviewed: April 4, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Bitsa | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$380.00 | | Purchased At: | velomir | | Strengths: | smooth work, U-turn & Poplock rulezzz, a lot of usable tunings, not flexible, suitable for ALL possible riders - cause full air fork. | | Weaknesses: | It's not so important but in winter in -25*C air is leak - moreover it leak not outside, but between positive & negative air cameras. So fork make very low and soft after 3-4 hours of riding. But maybe it's cause - I havn't change oil, was riding with OEM.
Maybe not so strong as I Wait from 32mm stanchions with disk brake - not so big difference with Pilot. | | Similar Products Used: | Pilot is my old fork and a lot of RS, Fox, Marz has tried | | Bike Setup: | Atom fxc650 LX-XT, hayes, fsa, wtb... | | Bottom Line: | most tuned fork on the market and so cheap for prepaid! Higher - are only sky!
After receiving the fork in Nov I've riding 500-700km on it as on hardtail as on full suspension and only 1 time was a problem - in very frost day. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Greg Jetnikoff
a Cross Country Rider
from Townsville, Australia
Date Reviewed: April 1, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Tai cHI | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$600.00 | | Purchased At: | Tony's | | Strengths: | WOW!!! So far cannot figure out why these are so good. Thought the FOX TALUS were as goodas it gets but these are just plain gooder!!!. Torsionally rigid, smooth, easy to tune ( ok maybe the rebound is a little vague bit it works well) Longer than the TALUS on slackened the head angle on my new GTIDXC1.0 which was too steep. MUCH better than the stock FOX 100R's, Brake line clip is good. | | Weaknesses: | Colour sucks ( but don't really care as I don't actually look at my forks when I am riding, retaining clip for rebound knob is sloppy ( needs a rubber O ring not a thin metal clip), remote is hard to mount so it doesn't stick above the bars where it WLL get ripped off and still be able to activate from the grips ( not sure how you could fix this so it would work with all types of brake and gear change combos) | | Similar Products Used: | OEM Fox F100R ( complete rubbish), Psylos on previous bike, FOX Talus RLT( my previous benchmark for quality) and a raft of DH and XC forks since 1988. | | Bike Setup: | 2006 GTIDXC 1.0 , XTR high normal rear derailleur, stock XT STI, Easton seatpost, Selle Italia gel flite, Maxxis larsen tyres on stans notubes. | | Bottom Line: | As I said WOW. I have been riding a long time and I used to race MX years ago. Until I tried the Fox Talus I considered mtb forks to be very badly designed and made. The TALUS were just right. Well now these are better and I can't even tell you how. From the moment I rode the Revelations the bike just felt brilliant. They work so well with the GT rear end it is not funny. Talk about from the ridiculous to the sublime ( poetetic license claimed) from the F1ooR to the Rock shox. What is more, the cheap manufactured feel that rock shox have always have is gone. Smooth, torsionally rigid, no roughness on initial stroke, no bottoming roughness( feel like Mazzochi and Fox Talus always have), and something else I can't describe which is very confidence inspiring. If they are reliable in the long haul these are the forks for everything except short course XC and DH/Jump riding ( too heavy, too fragile respectively). Remote works well and effective. Got with Uturn cause these were the only ones available but like my Talus will probably live forever at the long end of the adjustment. GOOD FORK | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jason
a Weekend Warrior
from raleigh, nc
Date Reviewed: March 25, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$425.00 | | Purchased At: | Jenson | | Strengths: | Adjustability...as many have already said-allows for nearly infinite tunability. I'm coming from Fox, which are typically as stiff as it gets, and this is stiffer. Also is relatively light for 130mm. Overall, the package is just perfect. Rock Shox have gotten their crap together. | | Similar Products Used: | Fox Vanilla R, Float | | Bike Setup: | Heckler | | Bottom Line: | This is the total package, everything is done right. The Revelation exceeds the performance of Fox forks for much cheaper. There is no downside. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Noah
a Weekend Warrior
from Rome, Ga
Date Reviewed: February 25, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Plush smooth travel. Dual Air allows for adjustable resistance to meet riding conditions. Pop-lock remote offers on the fly adjustment of the dampening. Floodgate offers fine tuning of dampening system. Far better product for a lower price than similar products tried such as Manitou Minute 2. | | Weaknesses: | None so far. | | Similar Products Used: | Rock Shox Reba, Rock Shox SID, Manitou Minute 2:00 | | Bike Setup: | 2005 Trek Liquid 55 w/ Revelation FS. | | Bottom Line: | Best value product. Less expensive than Fox or Manitou products of similar quality and performance. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Martin Liska
a Weekend Warrior
from San Berabrdino county, California
Date Reviewed: January 14, 2006 | | Favoriate Trail: | Red Box - Angeles Crest Mtns. | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$461.00 | | Purchased At: | The Path | | Strengths: | The adjustablity between 100mm to 130mm and the lockout. The price. | | Weaknesses: | None so far | | Bike Setup: | 2005 Kona stock except the front forks | | Bottom Line: | For the short time that I have used the front forks, they appear to work well. The ability to drop the forks to 100mm travel when I climb hills is a great plus. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dennis Verburg
a Weekend Warrior
from Kudelstaart Netherlands
Date Reviewed: November 15, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | several in Netherlands | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$525.00 | | Purchased At: | S-tec Sports Germany | | Strengths: | Light, stiff, easy to adjust, the looks and very very smooth
Adjustments | | Weaknesses: | Poploc Remote lever. It is only good for lock-out.
What I need is the Poploc ADJUST remote lever, so I can use the motion control of the fork. | | Similar Products Used: | Marzocchi marathon S 105, Duke SL 80 and judy xc 80. | | Bike Setup: | Dt swiss SSD 210l, magura Louise, Shimano XT gear.
Bike: Red bull NPL-300 | | Bottom Line: | I thought I had a perfect fork with the marzocchi Marathon S
But due to Problems with Marzocchi(It takes 8 weeks to get some spare parts). I must buy an other fork. 8 weeks without riding is killing me! So the revelation U-turn came in the way (lucky me). After a few 100 meters, it was clear that this was it. The fork is quit, no bumpy rides (smooth).
It follows the track like a bullit!
The only thing I must do now, is change the poploc remote lever for poploc adjust lever. I think the remote lever is useless. It is only good for lock-out. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Simon
a Weekend Warrior
from Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Date Reviewed: October 5, 2005 | | Favoriate Trail: | Pitt Street, majura pines ACT | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | It's what a lot of people have been waiting for: something with more than the Reba but without all the extras of a Pike. It prefromed flawlessly, all controls did their job effectively. The fork is plush, light and the Motion Control works exceedingly well. Better quality than Manitou, almost on par with Fox but a lot less $$$ | | Weaknesses: | Did not find any (only tested the fork on an Australian Giant Reign 2). | | Similar Products Used: | Own/ed: Fox Vanilla 125R, Manitou Axel Elite, Marzocchi EXR Air Pro. | | Bike Setup: | Avanti Barracuda 05, Easton Monkeylite Carbon riser bars, Sette Edge7 Stem, Fox Vanilla 125R. | | Bottom Line: | Overall, this is a great Trail/All Mountain fork. Travel can be set at 115 or 130mm, which makes it a very versatile fork. Although it was stock on the Reign 2, I will buy a Trance 2... put my Fox Vanilla's on, with the plan to upgrade to these forks! Simply put, they work well in all areas and the Motion Control Pop-loc is a great feature for any out of the saddle or steep climbs. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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