Will Shock Sox clear everything?

 

came here to post that.

now... the question is, would they cause enough friction to alter small bump performance? only one way to find out.

 

Gets Popcorn….. Waits for all the opinions from no one who owns a Podium.

Those scratches suck.
It looks like whatever hit the stanction tube was drug up it…after it impacted (little squiggly lines touching the deeper chip).. usually when rocks hit they chip and go away. It also looks like the 2 were done at the same time. The squiggles overlay exactly. I’m thinking not a rock.
Only important because all I care about is why so I can help protect mine.

Following as a fellow Podium owner, to see what happens.

 

More or less the same design as moto forks (inlcuding the location of the caliper), and I don't recall having many issues with dings on the tubes from debris being kicked up. Maybe just a "**** happens" thing? The tire shouldn't sling stuff into that area, so it might have been something the rotor picked up. For moto forks, there are a bunch of aftermarket fork guards that provide more coverage. Maybe the aftermarket will do something here as well. Or maybe Fox will offer one. If I could get my hands on one of the guards I could see how hard it would be to 3D print one with more coverage but the same mount points.

 

FYI, I reached out to Polisport to see if they would be interesting in creating an aftermarket solution.

 

A gripe has led me to make this post. Rather than just talking about my gripe, I’m hoping we can use this forum to make observations, good and bad.

There's already a forty page thread for this fork...

https://www.mtbr.com/threads/fox-podium-inverted-fork.1238376/

 

The bad:
• Inverted design has led to rock chipping my Kashima coat, at least on my brake side
• Torsional stiffness (or lack thereof) is noticeable in low speed technical sections

which in this case, are the delicate Kashima coated sliders. Right now I have three small chips in there, all in about the same spot, from at least two separate incidents.

mind you kashima is just hard anodizing, but instead of the pore in the center of the hexagonal oxide layer being dyed and sealed it is impregnated with molybdenum disulphide, and maybe dye. Basically no aluminum surface treatment will fair any different.

More or less the same design as moto forks (inlcuding the location of the caliper), and I don't recall having many issues with dings on the tubes from debris being kicked up. Maybe just a "**** happens" thing? The tire shouldn't sling stuff into that area, so it might have been something the rotor picked up. For moto forks, there are a bunch of aftermarket fork guards that provide more coverage. Maybe the aftermarket will do something here as well. Or maybe Fox will offer one. If I could get my hands on one of the guards I could see how hard it would be to 3D print one with more coverage but the same mount points.

Motorcycle stanchions are steel with hard chrome plating (except some very rare 50mm works WP with aluminum stanchions)
hard chrome is slightly harder, and WAY more durable than hard anodizing.

 

I also want to know when theyll address the wave washer in the bomber cr that always breaks. I asked them if they are still using it and they said yes. Its been about a decade.

 

I've run nothing but correct way up forks for a couple of decades and never chipped the lowers in probably over a thousand rides. The dorado guard is either a lot better than the fox or something else is going on. Personally I think the dorado guards could be a lot better, but then again I've not looked at the podium.

P.s. The wave washer is easily fixed. I just print a tpu disk, an oring would probably work too.