I think I'll have bought a steel hard tail by the spring
In the MBR steel hard tail review last year they said that of the 4 bikes they tested (altititide, P7, 456 , duster) they liked the p7 because of the Vanila fork. They said the forks on the other bikes (recon, reba, revelation) were comfy but that the vanilla was miles ahead on confidence inspiring "support" entering berms and under braking. Presumably this relates to compression damping. I think singletrack some times refers to Fox forx being less divey
So have you experinced this? Is it real effect worth paying more for? Does the float do it as well as the vanilla....

