i am looking to buy some fox 36 float and wondering is kashima worth paying extra for ?

what do you guys think

Course not! Just a marketing / hype guff. My new bike has kashima coated fork and rear shock and both work great but that is because both are still in the first 70 miles of life and anyway are very good. As were the last ones from 2006 and the ones before from 2002. Fox stuff is good but not because of kashima.

but its gold!!!

I went from a standard RP23 to a kashima one and it did make a small difference. Not convinced it’s worth the price of the upgrade though.

It scratches more easily unfortunately 🙁

How much of a premium does it command?
Suppose that it would be a selling point when the time came.

It scratches more easily unfortunately

What, seriously ?

I have never used it but think it’s rubbish, we never had it in the past and we managed fine. 😀

its the skf seals that are supposed to offer the real upgrade., looks good though

I went on a weekends biking with a mate and a group of his work mates, and one of them told me that the kashima coating had revolutionised his riding, and he wasn’t joking. The rest of the words that came out of his mouth then just sounded like ‘blah, blah, blah, blah. But I do like the colour of it.

kashima is just filling the pores in the anodised oxide with moly disulphide grease (that dirty black axle grease that is a few quid a tub). The gold is a pigment added at the same time and is there purely for cosmetics.

So they will scratch like any other pretty anodised stanchion, but that shouldnt affect the lubricating properties of the coating (which runs deeper into the pores).

http://www.kashima-coat.com/en/experience/whats_cashima_coat.php