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Submitted by
Stick
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver, Canada
Date Reviewed: 4/21/2008 3:02:54 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Simple Life |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | Light |
| Weaknesses: | Overpriced, bottoms out, dives |
| Similar Products Tried: | Marzocchi Z1, 66VF2 |
| Bike Setup: | Giant Reign X1 |
| Bottom Line: | I had high hopes for this fork but even after changing to heavier springs it still blew through it's travel and bottomed out constantly. I'm a small guy (150lb) and this thing would bottom on any drop over 3 feet and dive in corners. Used it in a DH race and had zero confidence coming into berms and going through rock gardens. I've ridden many forks and this one was way too linear and "pogo" for my liking. I've since replaced it with a 66 and I'm very happy. This fork is ok if you're just going to trail ride avoiding drops and chunder. |
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Submitted by
someone
a Downhiller
from wherever
Date Reviewed: 2/11/2008 11:07:57 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 1 Year |
| Strengths: | stiff strong springy good rebound doesn't leak pretty much all you want in a fork |
| Weaknesses: | the cable guide really needs to be redone |
| Bike Setup: | this is the 07 that i am reviewing |
| Bottom Line: | After a year and a bit, its still holding strong. Its never needed to be serviced (knock on wood), its leaked a tiny bit when i change springs, but stopped quickly. I have only bottomed it out twice, both on a six foot drop with the light coil on a hardtail. I dont know what the bottom out problem is, maybe everyone is really heavy. I am 160. The rebound adjust is fine, the coil feels good, preload doesn't do too much, but works. Overall, it is a really nice fork. I like it more than the talas or the float. And more than marzocchi, but its not nearly as plush. Zokes sag a lot more and have a different feel. I like this fork a lot though. 5/5 stars after a year. FOX: PLEASE MAKE A 180 mm VERSION OF THIS! PLEASE! |
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Submitted by
Morris Elliott
a Weekend Warrior
from Shelby, NC
Date Reviewed: 1/28/2008 11:14:05 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | PeeWee's |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Purchased At: | Clark Bikes |
| Strengths: | Beafy Construction. Simple use |
| Weaknesses: | WEAK springs, no adjustments. Customer service. |
| Similar Products Tried: | Marzocchi 66 RC3 |
| Bike Setup: | Stock Fork on Giant Reign x1 |
| Bottom Line: | Well, I don't like to talk bad about things, but I was really disapointed with this fork. I went through three springs and could not get this fork to keep from bottoming out, even on the preload before the jumps. It would even dive just riding around. I know that I am a heavy rider (over 215 geared out), but I did expect it to handle me after adding the over 240 lb spring. The sad thing was the Fox rep's solution was to charge me 140$ to make it a RC2. Not sure how you would handle that, but I guess I expected a little more cooperation to fix the problem. All in all, I was not pleased with the preformance or the customer service from Fox. |
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Submitted by
charlie
a Weekend Warrior
from New Zealand
Date Reviewed: 9/30/2007 10:58:55 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | anything at woodhill |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | long forgiving travel, very stiff lowers, adjustable preload and reound that actually works |
| Weaknesses: | havent found any yet. perhaps factory spring is a bit soft but i'm only 65kg so it works for me |
| Bike Setup: | giant reign X1 - fox DHX3.0 rear shock |
| Bottom Line: | awesome fork, my first time with a 'real' fork and i'm hitting jumps and drops i would never have dreamed of previously. This fork gives confidence in that it wont bottom and chuck you off, the front will stay on the ground during hard cornering and if you cock up a landing it usually bails you out with all the soak. First 50mm or so of travel is very soft and responsive on rough trails/roots, then the rest is progressivley harder, beautiful. Cant actually think of anything wrong with it. Looks bloody awesome too, dwarfs even some double crown forks! |
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Submitted by
tom
a Downhiller
from london
Date Reviewed: 9/18/2007 3:32:12 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | chicksands |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Purchased At: | cycle surgury |
| Strengths: | These forks are very good to start with, the preload and rebound are very simple to use and not as heavy as you would think being coil and oil. |
| Weaknesses: | I have only been riding to and from work mostly with these and in the near by forest, but i have broken the rebound twice from a small set of stairs. |
| Bike Setup: | Orange patriot 07, hope moto's, race face diablos |
| Bottom Line: | These forks are very nice for the first couple of months but seeming i have broken them twice and a friend of mine has aswell i feel that they are not very good for the extreme rider, i would not recommend these to anyone. |
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Submitted by
Mike
a Weekend Warrior
from BC, Canada
Date Reviewed: 8/16/2007 12:27:05 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | pipeDream |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | -The aesthetics are good for Freeride - big stantions, crown than clears most downtubes. -Simple shock; preload is actually useful. It controls how high the bike rides in the travel which I play with quite a bit on the trail. Rebound is a personal preference - I like it as fast it can go without topping out the fork to hard. This makes the fork not pack up and Fox forks are really responsive so don't mute it by cranking on rebound |
| Weaknesses: | Under no weight the spring clanks around in the left leg. Also, it comes with a medium spring which is really lite. I weight 165lbs and it was diving hard on braking and landings - good though at speed cause i am riding half way through the travel making +/- 3" |
| Similar Products Tried: | RS revelation, manitou nixon, totem coil, DJII |
| Bike Setup: | stock giant x1. |
| Bottom Line: | great all mountain fork, for those that weight close or more than me and have aggressive riding, recommend firm or extra firm coil - and/or at least turn up the preload. Simple fork, easy to adjust, good value overall. |
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Submitted by
someone
a Downhiller
from somewhere
Date Reviewed: 7/20/2007 10:24:53 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | santacruz trails |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Purchased At: | on the bike |
| Strengths: | really smooth through its travel super plush in bottom half ramps up nicely hard to bottom stiff light easy to adjust breaks in pretty quickly |
| Weaknesses: | about every 2/3 months it starts to clunk. I found that the little rubber slider on the spring slides up after 2/3 months, so you just open the little cap over the preload and slide it back down... then it is perfect again |
| Similar Products Tried: | other stuff |
| Bike Setup: | transition vagrant |
| Bottom Line: | has worked flawlessly except for the super easy to fix thing since day 1. doesnt show any signs of breaking soon. better than the floats and talas's and a lot cheaper way better than any single crown marzochi that i have felt fox needs to make a 180 version of it |
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Submitted by
Mike
a Weekend Warrior
from Perth, Western Australia
Date Reviewed: 3/24/2007 7:27:15 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Strengths: | Coil spring, Single crown, Beefy stanchions, No flex, Reliable, Easy to use, Looks the goods! |
| Weaknesses: | Little heavy if only doing XC riding |
| Bike Setup: | 2007 Giant Reign X1 |
| Bottom Line: | These are a great fork! I do all kinds of riding, from XC to freeride on this fork. The compression of this fork is predictable and progressive so you can always estimate how the fork is going to react to the bump. Single crown gives a better turning circle. The reliability and simplicity of this fork is its greatest asset. There aren't 2000 different dials to adjust, just a rebound knob and a preload (sag-setting) knob. I rode a pair of RockShox Recons the other day (air spring). Now, while air shocks do have slight weight and setup advantages, they are just not as plush as a coil shock in my opinion. I always feel confident that if I blow seals on this fork when out in the wilderness it will still be able to be ridden back to the car. If blown seals occur with air, you're walking. Air shocks have their place among the XC/all-mountain crowd, but I wouldn't be confident doing aggressive trail riding/big hit stuff with them. Bottom line, if you're looking for a reliable single crown fork which can take everything you can throw at it, this is the fork for you. If you are sticking to XC/all-mountain riding, I would go for an air fork or a lighter weight fork. |
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