I’m saving now for the Edge fork as I’m going to purchase through Rulezman. He clearly loves the fork as it’s his highest rated fork for ‘22. It seems he loves the chassis, but doesn’t talk about damper performance.

Any feedback on the damper? I’m currently on an Avy hybrid coil setup in a Yari, but so curious about this fork.

Any comparison to other forks on the market?


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I have an Edge and unfortunately the steerer creaked within a few weeks. Up to that point the fork felt fantastic. It was super easy to set up, (88kg rider 85psi with mid volume reducer) in fact the only setting I changed on trail was the rebound and that was one time. Normally I'm tweaking things and bracketing for days to get a good set up but this just worked well almost immediately.

The fore aft stiffness is very noticeable, especially on the brakes over choppy terrain. The lack of stiction helped by the stiffness is also noticeable, it's a very active fork. Air spring seems to be on point with a very predictable curve and no walls of progression.

I've now got the Flash (bigger, burlier version of the Edge...guaranteed not to creak apparently) and this is a similar story to the Edge in that it is also easy to set up. I've only had a couple of small rides on it due to the weather but I'm hoping this one holds up.

I need more time to give any useful feedback on the damper though as I basically haven't really adjusted it (haven't needed to past the rebound tweak).

 

Post some pics whenever you get the chance!

 

Every low production boutique fork manufacturer has gone out of business leaving owners high and dry since the start of suspension forks. Sure it look cool, might work pretty well too, but eventually it'll be useless from lack of parts & support.

 

Dang you’re killin my long weekend vibes with that negativity!


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I purchased one, still waiting for delivery. I got the Edge model.

Seems like intend has done a lot right with this fork. From the dyno plots I have seen to what appears to be an amazing review from Rulezman.

It seems intend is small enough that they can not use proprietary parts, sp even if they do go out of business rs 35 mm seals and what looks to be standard o rings it should have a long long service life assuming nothing major breaks.

You ever try to buy any parts for a charger 2/2.1 besides the lower seal head. Nothing avail from rock shox, and a very un user-friendly assembly.

Intends philosophy is well engineered simplicity, and I think thats a huge reason they will succeed and grow.

From what I saw he runs his business out of his home, keeping low overhead so he can focus time and money on growing the company and products. Cornelius seems like a pure genius, and a passionate guy, I dont think he is going anywhere and I suspect once I try mine I will be a customer for life, much like anyone else who understands the superior chassis of a inverted fork.

 

Would like to see the Rulezman review.

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It sounds amazing in Italian 👍

 

Which axle did people order? My hub is convertible


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Which axle did people order? My hub is convertible


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I went 15x110 but was really hard to not choose 20x110

 

If you have a convertible hub as I do, definitely order the 20mm axle.


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Watched the Rulezman video.

He mentioned the highly linear spring rate. For me, I like a ton of suspension progression and frankly need it. Front & rear. I don't like coil rear shocks. On my 3 chamber Mezzer I have to run a lot of pressure in the secondary positive chamber to prevent hard bottom outs.

Curious what hard charging rider's experiences with the Intend are.

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Watched the Rulezman video.

He mentioned the highly linear spring rate. For me, I like a ton of suspension progression and frankly need it. Front & rear. I don't like coil rear shocks. On my 3 chamber Mezzer I have to run a lot of pressure in the secondary positive chamber to prevent hard bottom outs.

Curious what hard charging rider's experiences with the Intend are.

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I believe the Intend does have adjustable progression with token type system. I do think its a personal preference, I do like a more linear spring personally as long as there is enough progression for bottom out resistance.

I will be coming from a mezzer expert, IRT with custom shim tune so will be a interesting comparison. Mezzer is prob the stiffest single crown I have ran, and i can deff notice its a bit more jaring torsionaly then my dorado on my dh bike. Hence why i want to try the intend, I thing the hugely stiff fore and aft will be a nice welcome as with the little more torsional compliance. But the intend looks real easy to shim tune so as long as there is decent flowing piston should huge tuning possibility for your preference.

I also Like intend uses popet style air spring like the manitou so you dont have the softer mid stroke

 

Rulezman has another video that's a year or two older where he talks about why he has a preference for linear forks/shocks versus extremely progressive. It's a personal opinion of his, but he does a good job explaining why he feels how he does in the video I watched.

 

I am not as hard-charging a rider as some but I like the Edge a lot, as mentioned just with the basic settings as suggested from the factory it seems to everything well. The Hover is great too, takes some dialing in (I upped pressures a little from the original suggestion) but very nice to be able to pressurize the negative spring separately to whatever you want. The Mezzer Pro is more torsionally stiff (not a ton though), but the intend has amazing longitudinal stiffness, feels like the front brake is twice as powerful at least. The Mezzer has quite a bit more initial stiction too, though I haven't burnished the bushings on it yet so that might help.

 

I have an Intend Edge also. Even Rulezman tuned. That fork is another level of anything else I had on my bike. Is very stiff for aft. Much stiffer than my old DVO Diamond, Fox 36 and 38,RS Pike and Lyric I had before. The front of the bike feel lighter and more precise, since there is less rotating mass. And is much plusher than the custom tuned Diamond I had.
Rulezman put the linearized version, with 3 chamber on the fork. I love that the fork doesn't dive so easy when braking.

 

What travel and what pressures are you running in the two positive chambers?

 

So the three-chamber airspring revision is able to installed on older Edge forks?

 

Yes. I understood from Cornelius that all new improvements could be implemented on older forks. Intend also have a video where they put new airspring to an older fork.

 

I just got an Edge and absolutely love it. For reference I’m 170lbs and it’s on a Sentinel at 160 mm. Air chamber is at 62 psi for ~22% sag. I ended up removing one of the 12mm shims from the compression stack as I live near very rocky terrain and wanted less HSC (super easy to do at home).


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Is the air spring upgrade doable by an end user or does the fork need to be sent back? May have to inquire about that (and costa/availability)…

 

It's an easy swap - you just removed the spring side where the volume spacer sits and replace it with the 2nd air chamber. I've exchanged emails w/ Cornelius about this and he says they need more time with testing before they release a final product. Odd as he's already sold a couple of forks with it and Rulezman appears to have as well. I'll wait it out, but just like a Mezzer, it should be a nice addition.

 

Thanks for the update! Agreed it would be a nice addition. I have a mezzzer pro also and indeed it is a nice feature. (Essentially a user-defined curve for the progressive airspring)

 

Rulezman said that the operation take 10 minutes and anyone could do it at the kitchen.

 

Cornelius has now released the linearized

 

Ordered my linearizer last week, will report back if i get it before the snow comes!

I am currently approx 190 geared up, 180mm 64 ha and am running about 78 psi. I ride aggressive trail, lots of steep chunk, midstroke feels a little soft at the moment.

It seems to really gave a hard time getting full travel, i have zero volume spacers in the air chamber... Judging by cycling the damper leg it feels to have a lot of progression from trapped air in the uppers.

Any one else have any problems getting full travel?

 

I have the Flash and it doesn't like to give up that last part of travel easily. I've experimented with pressures from 75-90psi @170 travel and the last 5mm needs a decent hit to access it any any point in that pressure range. At the lower end of those pressures the mid stroke suffered so I've settled at around 87psi (which is pretty much my bodyweight) and this holds it up better staying more away from the ramp up. I've got a linerizer coming too for no other reason that curiosity.

 

The lineearizer is going to make getting full travel harder to achieve , not easier…

 

I do understand that but I'm hoping the trade-off better mid stroke support will prevent me from what I think is feeling the ramp up harshness, if it is a buildup of air in the upper is causing the ramp up maybe more ramp up in the air spring will help it feel less aggressive.

 

I installed my linearizer and went from 62 psi in main to 55/105 and love it. I rides a touch higher in the travel (which I appreciate). I tried the recommended 55/110 but couldn’t use the last 15mm no matter what I did.


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That's fantastic to hear .... Where you able to use full travel before?


I had a pretty aggressive ride and still have not got full travel, but due to cooler temps i swapped the bath oil to 5w40 engine oil and the fork felt fantastic after....

One thing i noticed it seemed like i had air built up in the uppers, so i will monitor and see if this happens again. Happens in my dorado but it has bleeders and the fork feels so much better after a bleed!

 

Linearizer arrived today and snow coming tomorrow night so I'll try and get a ride in before to compare

 

You wanted to ride and give an extensive review on the linearizer ;-)

 

I was running 88psi and now with the linearizer I'm using 75/135 (ratio of 1.8) and it is great. Able to use full travel when needed and the mid stroke is even better than the single chamber. I did try 75/150 to start with but it was a little stout for me.

 

I actually just reached out to Rulezman and he said he has something special coming in early January so watch out for that. I too wish he was a little more transparent with what he's doing. For example, on Dougal's site, he's very specific about what mods he's making.

On another note, I ride on the east coast of the US and recently went for a ride where ambient temp was ~28F & the fork felt terrible to me. It felt completely dead/unresponsive, like it had a ton of compression dampin. I completely wound out the compression & sped up the rebound, but nothing helped. My other fork is a heavily modified Yari - Avalanche Hybrid Coil w/ Everflow air piston - and it's the same no matter what temp.

You think this could be a damper oil temp problem?

 

On another note, I ride on the east coast of the US and recently went for a ride where ambient temp was ~28F & the fork felt terrible to me. It felt completely dead/unresponsive, like it had a ton of compression dampin. I completely wound out the compression & sped up the rebound, but nothing helped. My other fork is a heavily modified Yari - Avalanche Hybrid Coil w/ Everflow air piston - and it's the same no matter what temp.

You think this could be a damper oil temp problem?

Most probably the bath oil. Intend use Supergliss 68K in their forks. Slippery stuff, but it gets thick as honey in the cold.