Just like how confident they were/are about their seal/lubrication design?
Confidence never seems to be the problem with Fox.
US Open Gee Atherton inverted fork
Confidence never seems to be the problem with Fox.
was going to say,
One thing is trying out some silver stanchions which does not make it to production. I would be very surprised if they will not make it to market. Then we can only wait for the single crown version 
Single Crown USD fork? Sir you are out of your mind. First - the 36 is a very good chasis. Second - have you ever dried a SC USD fork (dnm, shiver, dorado) ? You could as well use noodles for suspension.One thing is trying out some silver stanchions which does not make it to production. I would be very surprised if they will not make it to market. Then we can only wait for the single crown version
Or I have a sense of humor
RAVE! 
CORONARY!!! 
I was inspired to mention the single crown idea as I actually saw one riding around with one last night and it reminded me what a crazy idea it was. Still makes cool cafe bike forks though.
the single shivs and durdados were some of the best looking forks of all time....of all time.
anyone remember the marzocchi RAC?
anyone remember the marzocchi RAC?
oh yea. looked cool. was apparently a total turd, but not b/c it was USD.
Damn right. I remember the times way back when we didnt have a hole in the ozon layer...
Now we have all these coloured folk around and guess what happened.
Damn right. I remember the times way back when we didnt have a hole in the ozon layer...
Now we have all these coloured folk around and guess what happened.
I remember drooling over them as a kid. What damping did they use?they were sweet
Also SC shivers and Dorados were mint looking.
those RAC were super hot. same open bath as all the marzocchi's of their time (check the top leg).
gotta love when 100mm was a long travel freeride fork!
i would add that perhaps the best riding DH fork, to this day, i have been on is a stratos s8. too bad it was 9lbs, or i might still be riding it.
gotta love when 100mm was a long travel freeride fork!
i would add that perhaps the best riding DH fork, to this day, i have been on is a stratos s8. too bad it was 9lbs, or i might still be riding it.
I disagree I think the hottest fork was that special Super T with all the CNC work to it. Forget what it was called.
it was just that. back in 96ish they came out with the super T, which was all handmade and came in under 200 total forks. They also made the mr. T and jr. T, which were also faux triple clamps.
mr derp PBF
i had a Jr. T and Super T and remember them both being real triple clamps
Just as true for the Dutch unfortunatly...
the original Mr T with the orange lowers and bolt on arch had screw on upper stanchion tubes...maybe i'm wrong...maybe it was the jr. T.....but I could have sworn you could turn the "triple clamp" fork into a single crown fork.
that might have been the Mr T. i dont remember my Jr. T having screw on stanchions...but then again its been 12 years since i had one. i sold my 5" Z1 Bam for it and it was night and day in terms of stiffness (though both were noodles compared to new forks)
Yup Mr T sounds awfully familliar as the transformer fork. Friend of mine had one hanging in his house. Probably still has it...
Ill ask for pics...
Ill ask for pics...
Here is the beast but without the stickers.
Idk if you owned one, but i did. They had the same 4" of bushing overlap that ALL marzocchi forks did of that era. There were two versions as well, the. Pictured "bolt on" arch, cnced and all, and an earlier "wrap-around", like stratos used on the mx6. My super T was great, far ahead of most anything else in that era. The damping is archaic by todays standards, but the chassi was solid and it was oh-so plush on certain terrain.
I had the wrap-around one on my Rotec. I spent a lot of time polishing it as the whole thing oxidized grey by the time the stickers had peeled off. You are right, it had the same bushings as my Z.1 and Z.2. Hey, I thought it was the **** at first, and it was good enough for Corado Herin and Bas de Bever, so who am I to complain, but it could have been better. The fork felt great until I tried my friend's Mr. Dirt. I think that fork would still be pretty good today.
I didn't even read this. All I saw was live for this. Which reminds me...
If anybody can tell me what biking video this song was used in, I will give you rep and cake.
MX technology with shimmed compression and rebound valves has been around forever, in fact some of the first products like the RS Mag series used these principles, but mountain bike companies were "lazy" IMO, just going with what was "good enough", so at the same time as this Super T you had RS with their ported-damping boxxer and the manitou Xvert-Ti, which wasn't lubricated anyhwere near a well as the other two. Risse, Mr Dirt, Avalanche, Stratos and others were using much better damping systems the entire time.
Interesting fork... More interesting to know what's inside than what the outside looks like though.
The intro of Chainreaction 5, classic.
Chain Reaction 5
I didn't even read this. All I saw was live for this. Which reminds me...
If anybody can tell me what biking video this song was used in, I will give you rep and cake.
Here is the beast but without the stickers.
I had a set of those for a while too. Proper love/hate relationship - loved the way they looked and the attention they got, hated that they always seemed tricky to keep sweet (which was weird for a 'zocchi of that era) and agree that they wagged like a spaniel's tail
Another interesting point is that a lot of them had slight differences from each other - goes with being hand made, £2k forks I suppose
I didn't realize that the old Jr. T forks had screw on upper stanchions. Until I dropped the fork in the crowns and had the lowers rip off, that is.
Slight dredge, but some of the shimano riders in the past have been on mavic rims. No such thing as a saint rim outside of maybe some old prototypes.
A lot of shimano riders were on DT rims last year branded as XTR and saint. The Athertons are on Stans No Tubes rims this year, rebranded as shimano. Keep an eye open for some prototypes from Stans under them.
this is always fun to know
do you know if fabians wheels are diff from everyone elses mavics ?
could've done with something and bit better for Ft.Bill. Ruined his wheel at the SDA, then the same at the World Cup - someone made a pretty poor call trying to run the same thing twice
You can blame the alloy nipples for that. Not sure but it looked like he was on a different rim at wc#2.
...so would this imply that Gee is running tubeless on certain occasions?
It would be nice for Stans to make a more robust UST compatible rim for DH use (maybe something in the 520g weight range).