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Submitted by
Dilbean
a Downhiller
from Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: 9/11/2007 11:50:50 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Turpin's Trail |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Purchased At: | With used bicycle |
| Strengths: | SO far this fork is superb. I bought it with a ti spring in it. It is both supple and smooth with nice ramp up. Its been great for everything from jumping to dh and even for climbing back up. When climbing the fork settles down and doesnt bob much. It feels better than any other fork ive felt |
| Weaknesses: | So far nothing |
| Similar Products Tried: | Fox Float 36, fox talas 36, 666 rcx2 (demo), fox 40 |
| Bike Setup: | Transition Gran Mal, Deity bars, X7 rear deurailler, swinger 4-way |
| Bottom Line: | Amazing fork |
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Submitted by
daniel
a Weekend Warrior
from alexandria
Date Reviewed: 5/7/2007 11:37:10 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | where is a giant gorilla sit |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $550 |
| Strengths: | stiff in all the right ways. reasonably light considering its so stiff and a single crown. very very supple |
| Weaknesses: | it is a tall fork and i light a low front end. it doesn't help that my frame has a long headtube either. some might find it too heavy. |
| Similar Products Tried: | boxxers, pikes, 888 (not mine though) and other big forks |
| Bike Setup: | soul cycles sluggo (great frame and company), travis, gravity dh parts, and loco wheels |
| Bottom Line: | the one i have is an OE type as it has TCP damping in it not the intrinsic which i hear is more temperamental. the dampening is the reason i choose this for over others. also the one i has is the 180mm not the 203mm and its still a pretty tall fork. i would not say this is a great race fork. its a great for thus far. i'm a big guy at 260ish w/o gear and this fork goes where i point it. i will be racing it this weekend it in a dh hard tail class at massanutten. i have done some good size drops on it now and it has never companied for a bottom out or anything. also the thing feels like a magic carpet on the front of the bike. pretty much all the bumps big and small are gone. also ironically the fork also DJ ok as it doesn't load up too much and take the pop of the lip away. its pretty much the perfect gravity play for. it can do pretty much anything you ask of it |
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Submitted by
Zachary Hrnderson
a Downhiller
from n.h
Date Reviewed: 4/24/2007 7:08:33 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Chichen Soup |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $850 |
| Purchased At: | jensonusa.com |
| Strengths: | the 1.5 inch headtube |
| Weaknesses: | axle bult fall out |
| Similar Products Tried: | bomber 66 and the fox 36 van |
| Bike Setup: | Trek Session 77 All Spram stuff bomber roco rc world cup |
| Bottom Line: | the best single crown i have ever riden smooth as hell |
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