They’re not bad forks… But the 32 is an XC fork stretched too far, at long travel it’s uncompetitive with the Revelation. So instead of making a competitive 32, they invented the 34, because Fox know their best sales opportunities come from their own faults. But it’s barely stiffer than a Rev, and then along came the Pike and made it look silly. And all that on top of some pretty ropey damping options.
And now they’ve launched the 36, which is probably great but makes the 34 look even more pointless, while being basically twice the price of a Pike. So all the way through the long travel segment, which is definitely the one that catches the attention these days, they’ve either had their arses kicked, or kicked it themselves.
(personally I took the right hump over their 15mm bullshit- and doubly so now that, as soon as they got their inferior standard to number one, they instantly turned around and said “Look, the 36 is better than a Pike because 20mm”. *****. And now they’re selling a 110mm spacing QR15, which is incompatible both with maxle and with QR15. *****)