Ahahaha, good one
Damn it. Getting sniped left and right latelyI can’t help but note he spent a huge amount of that video with the front wheel in the air. You know, not actually using the suspension part of the fork
Will they send a trusted team of suspension setup engineers over to Wales to deliver the message of proper fork setup?
Well not if their halo doesn't work worth a shit. Their halo should be blowing people's minds. Reviews should be coming back where the reviewer says "I ain't giving it back, they can come pry it from my cold dead hands" if they expect this thing to blow up for them.
I'm really surprised reading some of these somewhat negative reviews. After about 30 minutes of riding the fork I kind of got it and once I adjusted my riding a tad (give the fork a line to ride and let it do it's job) I was genuinely impressed. The price is another thing altogether, but I thought it rode pretty darn well.
QC issues?
My avalanche yari rides pretty amazing, costs about a third of the price. For the the amount of a Trust Fund, the Trust Co™ fork better not just ride pretty darn well, as stated above it should be a "pry this out of my cold dead hands if you dare" feeling, which is how I basically feel about my tuned rear coil and the front suspension (the tuned air shock I have is ok, better than stock, but nowhere near the yarilanche/tuned RC4). If it's that for you, then cool, but I think a lot of the skepticism comes from the entry fee, which means that those that pony up the funds may get emotionally invested and may be rationalizing some of the behaviors. The anti-dive is cool, but it has to be the total package, not a gimmick, so the fork needs to work under all conditions, gobble up bumps, resist hard g-out nose-landings, and do all the other stuff we expect suspension to do. The "glued to the trail" feeling is great, my fork does that and seems to hook up amazing on rough off-camber stuff, I think a lot of that comes from much higher low-speed rebound and compression that are typically impossible to tune with most OEM dampers without harsh break-your-wrists feeling due to the over-damped HSC. The point is the damping and the air spring all have to be the "real deal" and it's hard to put the "trust" in a few reviews and possibly even harder to trust a few riders that will have problems turning around and calling something they spent $2700 on a waste. I know, I've been there, spent a lot of money on something that turned out to be lackluster, and maybe that's not the case here, but the point is the trust
Couldn’t agree more and if I had paid for one my opinion would obviously be biased. I didn’t buy it though, I just rode it. Maybe the guys giving it neg reviews just didn’t jive with it for one reason or another. That’s fair, maybe it’s not for everyone. It’s just very interesting to me that their experience was so different than mine. I’m not saying that it transformed my riding experience or anything. It's just that I had a positive experience with it which led me to the conclusion that the design might have some real merit. It’s just a shame there are not more opportunities for people to try it out. Try and reserve judgement until there’s some first hand experience.
During my ride time I didn't think at all about the non-adjustable damper, non-conventional air spring(s), or manufacturer described compatibility.
god damn that thing is ugly as fuck..
if someone gave me that fork for free, i still wouldn't take it...
Sounds like people are indeed saying "I get cold, dead hands with this. I can't pry it out"!
Kind of what one should expect from a fork with a mostly rearward initial path over small bumps that require vertical travel.
Maybe it's a terrain thing. Based on the design it should work well in rock gardens but would probably suffer on high speed breaking bumps or other small high interval impacts.
