Tightly tracking bombroof gems of the front shock world or over-engineered expensively maintained nonsense?*

For and against please ladies and gents

*In context of course, ie on a CAAD MTB frame, colour-matched 😉

I ran one for about 5 years.

Servicing is really expensive. Never serviced it, just bought a ‘just serviced’ fork of off *bay when the first one got awful.

Main gripe is the headset bearings lasted about 4 months in Scotland. Totally rubbish and really annoying and a bit hard to replace as well.

Ran a Jekyll for five years or so and the headshok was fantastic except for the limited travel (85mm iirc), but this was the pre rebound adjuster one which I believe has received some criticism

think it was serviced twice by lbs in that time – can’t remember how much, but that probably tells you it was reasonable…

Pretty cool shocks for their time, esp on a xc bike. Are they still being spec’d on cannondales? Assumed you’d only see them on a retro project nowadays.

Servicing was a ballache when I ran one – recall most LBSs thought they could have a dig at it, but really couldn’t. Whereas the lefty convinced them not to even try, and to just send it off to specialists.
Be easier nowadays to look after it yourself, more information out there on youtube etc.

The top-cap lock-out idea was tidy.

Are they still being spec’d on cannondales?

Only on the Bad Boy (hybrid) AFAIK.

I thought it was a cool idea on their CX bikes.