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1. GEDA - Member

   I have a Dialled bikes Alpine that I am currently got a pair of Marzocchi 55 forks on. Nice forks but if a am honest a bit long. Before I had a pair of coil Pikes on them. They seemed the correct amount of travel but the rebound control is not half as good as the Marzocchis and suffered on fast stoney downhills.

   Can you retrofit the Blackbox rebound assembly on to Coil Pikes (I know you can do it with the Air forks)? Any other recommendations for some stiff 140mm forks that do not take that much looking after?

   Posted 7 months ago #
2. Mackem - Member

   I like my RockShox Sektors.

   Posted 7 months ago #
3. jimmers - Member

   +1 Sektors

   I have the u-turn version and useful for setting the travel. I don't really change during a ride just to suit different riding locations.

   Local woods 130mm
   Out in the hills (Peaks, Wales) - 140mm
   Descent with big rocks - 150mm

   Edit: I have the coil version, cheap as chips and just work.

   Posted 7 months ago #
4. GEDA - Member

   Sectors are like Pikes though are they not?

   Posted 7 months ago #
5. wwaswas - Member

   I like my Marzocchi 44 Micro Ti's - no idea of length vs a pair of 55's though.

   Posted 7 months ago #
6. flyingmonkeycorps - Member

   Yeah don't Sektors have the same(ish) damping as Pikes - certainly not Blackbox.

   Could you not reduce the travel on the 55s? I'm pretty sure it's just a spacer.

   Posted 7 months ago #
7. GEDA - Member

   Does reducing the travel mean sticking a spacer in that limits the travel but they are just as tall or sinking the fork down? Would be interested to know.

   Posted 7 months ago #
8. topangarider - Member

   Magura Thor

   Posted 7 months ago #
9. ferrit - Member

   Why not get some 44 RC3 Tis? Running these on my PA and they're perfect. Fit and forget too.

   Posted 7 months ago #
10. chakaping - Member

    Dunno about fitting blackbox internals but you can get coil Pikes PUSHed to improve the damping.

    Posted 7 months ago #
11. b r - Member

    +1 Thor

    Stiff and work well, yearly service

    Posted 7 months ago #
12. BadlyWiredDog - Member

    Can you retrofit the Blackbox rebound assembly on to Coil Pikes (I know you can do it with the Air forks)? Any other recommendations for some stiff 140mm forks that do not take that much looking after?

    Yes, I'm pretty sure you can - you want the Dual Rebound damper rather than Black Box, which is the MoCo unit, LoCo off here sells them or you can find them on eBay. It's more problematic with the coil Sektor because that has a top-out spring as part of the rebound damper assembly, though I just popped it onto the dual rebound assembly and it seems fine. The top-out spring on the coil Pike is in the coil leg btw, so not an issue.

    It's a really good, easy upgrade and makes a big difference on repeated high speed stuff like fast, rocky descents.

    I've also just put a Pushed rebound stack from a Pike on a 130mm Revelation. There seems to be plenty of room despite the rebound damper rod being slightly longer. HTH.

    Posted 7 months ago #

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