Hey,

is it just me or do the guys who make our forks need to have a system so you can return to full travel on the fly?

I have some pikes and appreciate being able to wind them down when it all gets a bit steep for my all mountain fs. I can wind them down on the fly as the u-turn allows this. Problem is I have to get off the bike to wind em back out again. I would rather get rid of the motion control lock, which is basically redundant, and replace it with the new system. I ride trails not roads!

Thoughts?

Marzocchi ETA with remote does this

Fox TALAS – flick the switch, pop a wheelie & the forks push straight out.

That’s a start but fox + rock shox need to get on it!

hmmmmm, kinda then!

Why are Rock Shox not bothering? Just in case we want to do the tour de france on some pikes?

Manitou infinte travel, Magura flight control, Marzocchi ETA, pretty sure the maverick forks and Rockshox 2 Step System are on the fly aswell.

patent issues?

I agree btw – much better system

Manitou RTWD is good too.

Why are Rock Shox not bothering?

The Lyrik 2 step forks that I used last weekend return to full travel at the flick of a switch.

hope they drop the technology down to the pike! Though I guess I would need to buy the new forks with the technology 🙁 Or just get some lyriks whacked on 🙂

giddyrob – Member

hope they drop the technology down to the pike! Though I guess I would need to buy the new forks with the technology [:(] Or just get some lyriks whacked on

😕 mibbe just buy some forks NOT made by RockShox?

IME can’t beat the ETA sytem. Lock down rather than out which makes climbing easier. Back to full travel at the turn of a lever. It’s all the adjustment I’d need.

Rock Shox rule!

Fox are great but expensive.

not gonna change my forks just yet, but the next ones I buy will have to have that feature.

to lock the front fork on some of the terrain I try to get up would suck!

ETA is fantastic, really, really good system. Totally agree that soft lock-down is WAY better than solid lock-out.

That said, I’ve just put some U-turn Lyriks on my Heckler. Going to put up with the slow change as we don’t really do that much climbing here (and what we do do is a BIIIIGGGG climb followed by a BBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGG descent), going to use it more so that I can switch from 130mm ish for singletrack to 160mm for DH.

Pace/DT Swiss Launch Control does (or used to). Either hit a big enough bump, pump hard down on the bars, or flick the switch back up to return to full travel.

ETA was fantastic while I had it.

Would definitely have bought an ETA fork again but Marzocchi seem to use it very sparingly.