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DVO Suspension - potential new player?

PJivan

Monkey
Aug 27, 2006
157
20
Dublin, Ireland
Shimmed rebound???? I mean really? Thats what you would write on a catalog? I bet fresh beer is marketing... It should be called low temperature beer....is not fresh is just cold....goood save us from marketing words and give us moar shimz!
 

Owennn

Monkey
Mar 10, 2009
128
1
I trust you guys to figure out a good brake hose routing arrangement. It's not as easy as it sounds on an inverted fork with a left hand front brake lever. I customized my Maverick.
So run it in the proper place, on the right hand side?
 

Ronnie Dilan

Chimp
Oct 15, 2012
48
0
We have the routing figured out for the brake hose. Since the CTA is fixed in position it is very similar to mounting and routing a conventional fork.

Ronnie
 

Ronnie Dilan

Chimp
Oct 15, 2012
48
0
any updates for those of us who boycott the facetube?

The only real update is the arrival of a CTA unit to mount on the Emerald that we have in our Valencia office. We have some other updates and revisions that are going to be released in a couple of weeks.
 

Ronnie Dilan

Chimp
Oct 15, 2012
48
0
How many actual units are there in existence?
We have three of these in the world right now. One is here in our office being used to test the damping system and some other general tuning. The other two are still in our test facility getting the life beat out of them everyday for a couple more days.

Ronnie
 

daisycutter

Turbo Monkey
Apr 8, 2006
1,657
129
New York City
Suntour and DVO are connected, Marzocchi production and assembly was done by Suntour's until last year. Should few think of DVO as Suntour's premium product line? The bicycle retailer article below explains how Suntour is making a move out of the low end market with a complete 650 line up.

Call it 27.5-inch or 650B, SR Suntour has "a full program" of suspension forks for the new wheel size, the company's Henri Manders said. Among the 650B offerings is the Auron fork, a new design that will be available exclusively in the size. The Auron includes a lighter cartridge than previous SR Suntour forks and an improved version of its spring-loaded Q Loc thru axle.

While more common as original equipment on bikes sold in Europe than in North America, SR Suntour has steadily increased its capacity and marketshare in suspension forks in the last 10 years. It is probably the most vertically aligned suspension fork maker, doing magnesium and aluminum castings in-house, as well as machining and assembling its own cartridges and other assemblies.

Company officials now estimate that their only rival in overall sales is RockShox, which clearly has a larger share at the high-end of the market than Suntour. Suntour is betting on its work with the new brand DVO to give it a larger presence in the mid-priced to high-end part of the market.
 

Capricorn

Monkey
Jan 9, 2010
425
0
Cape Town, ZA
interesting that daisycutter: who makes rockshox though? As an OEM, I'm curious to know how Suntour can claim a presence in the mid to high end of the market if DVO owns the IP. Are they saying they do not manufacture high end stuff? Are they stating that their Rux fork is DOA?
 

gemini2k

Turbo Monkey
Jul 31, 2005
3,526
117
San Francisco
how Suntour can claim a presence in the mid to high end of the market if DVO owns the IP. Are they saying they do not manufacture high end stuff? Are they stating that their Rux fork is DOA?
Because Suntour will make all of DVO's forks? Also I would surprised if Suntour didn't have a significant equity stake in DVO. I imagine if DVO works out, long run Suntour will just buy them, or they will just operate as like a majority own subsidiary.
 

'size

Turbo Monkey
May 30, 2007
2,000
338
AZ
"Cedric will also be racing in a select amount of Enduro events previewing the new DVO Enduro Suspension coming later this year."
 

StyledAirtime

Monkey
May 24, 2006
245
1
NewZealand
Getting pretty into the idea of Dvo.
I've been on marzoochis now for a few season and if the Dvo product is as good + some new ideas it should be pretty sweet. A DVOed out Zerode g2 could be on the cards.
Have you guys sorted a NEw Zealand distributor?