New Fox forks
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Hey Kevin how big are the hucks in your part of the Shire?
Bout this big
Have you found a soul to buy yet? On account of being a blazing ginger and all?
FIGHT!!!
FIGHT!!!
FIGHT!!!
FIGHT!!!
Or get a frigging room you two!!!
You've about used up you monthly quota of ginger jokes there Frodo.
ooh kettle calls pot black!
I told you. I'm as much of a hobbit as you are a ginger.
fucking angry redheads. I guess it's true
My son's a ginger tho. You can't even get your insults straight, too much pipeweed I guess.
PS he turned 5 last month and is now riding without training wheels.
I sold mine, probably got ripped off though. At least I didn't miss second breakfast.
That thing was horrible. If it was greased up, it would work sorta. But rain is bad for it... made it seize up!!I rode a Manitou Sherman Slider dual-crown as an all-round fork for a long time on my RFX. Originally I had a Dorado singlecrown, but the Slider was 1" more travel at pretty much the same weight and a-c height.
Now, who remembers Hannebrink?! Or the Bombshell forks...
(Stolen from earlier RM post by ChrisRobin...god I wanted a set of these in like 1999
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I had a Stratos DC once, too.
I had an S7. That was "okay" except for the silly bolt on arch that would end up cracking. I don't remember if it was the S7 or S8 that had the dual springs in each leg with different spring rates.
I think this Fox 38 will be good. I'd pick one up one day....maybe next year. I still like my 36.
Marzocchi had their 66 with 38mm tubes as well that shared 888 lowers. If I had a 275 trail/enduro bike, I'd be looking for one.
Marzocchi had their 66 with 38mm tubes as well that shared 888 lowers. If I had a 275 trail/enduro bike, I'd be looking for one.
Have you tried both the X2 air and coil?
I had an MX6...amazing that it was possible to make a flexy DC fork with 35mm stanchions. That's what you get when you don't actually CNC the lowers and use clamps for everything. That said, my S8 Ultra was pretty good until the piston glide ring broke, then it was never-ending "meh".
Is it worth the hassle to employee purchase it and sell the 2020 shock that's coming on my Gambler before it gets used? That's what I'm doing with the fork.
i had a 66 coil on my sx trail. for some reason they thought it was a good idea to make a coil shock with air preload (at least the version i had). if you had anything more than like half a psi in there it was just way to stiff. aside from that it was a nice fork.
Uuuh, that "air assist" crap! A fried had a 55 with that brainfart system. As you said, you could pretty much lock the fork up just by blowing some air in the spring leg. And on top of that, to adjust the progressivity you had to add over 200ml of oil to it...
Back on topic, anyone else felt Fox pulled a Yeti move with the new shocks' press release? (at least the one featured on PB). They acknowledged the previous generations of the X2 and DHX2 had a shitton of issues, and their answer is "buy the newer, flashier, moar expensivier versions!". Just like Yeti did when they admitted the first generation Switch was crap, and used it as an argument to market the switch Infinity.
Back on topic, anyone else felt Fox pulled a Yeti move with the new shocks' press release? (at least the one featured on PB). They acknowledged the previous generations of the X2 and DHX2 had a shitton of issues, and their answer is "buy the newer, flashier, moar expensivier versions!". Just like Yeti did when they admitted the first generation Switch was crap, and used it as an argument to market the switch Infinity.
I just re-read their release about how they installed compression/rebound shimstacks on the main piston. You can send your old DHX2/X2 to Avalanche they'll do the same thing and use your adjusters for only fine-tuning.
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But single-crown x-ups!
Last fox fork I had was a 2002 vanilla 125mm. Creaked like mad. Creaking accompanied braking where it flexed pretty good too. Got rid of it. The sherman that replaced it had none of those issues. Thought they would have had that problem fix 16 years later. Definitely a non-starter for me.
Too bad the trunion mount 2020 DHX2 will be much harder to sell than the 2020 49 fork.
Lucky me, I just placed an order for a 2020 36... should I cancel it and order this newest and most bestest version instead? My hack riding skills will likely not notice the difference but *newer and shinier*
I'd cancel the order and get a good as new 36 from the pinkbike classifieds when all the Joeys have started swapping theirs for the 38 that they now cannot live without.
I'm not a 36 fan, but i'd bang the 38 on for sure. You might wanna wait a few weeks and check out the 38mm Totem as well once RS releases it.
Yeah, my thoughts too...
The shape of the arch on the fork has a very "simple" design, very far from what would be achieved with the help of topology optimisation. But maybe topology optimised shapes don't go well with casting...
I try not to be too grumpy and let somebody else guinea pig all these awesome new products!
Rebound now on main piston: Just fox realizing what a dipshit system they had previously with it being on poppet valves. Fucking 2020 and they were still making crap that no one would stand for in motorsports. They probably did realize it...they just didn't care.
