Haha, so who is not keeping up in here? 🙂
As for Fox forks, they look very nice and work super smooth, I’ll be putting a F100 RLC on my OH’s dad bike soon. He has a Reba at the moment. I used RS for the last 3 years and have to say they are as smooth as Fox if looked after, the difference might be in the damping department will have to see.
I think that it was established that the premature stanchion wear was down to using muck off type of cleaners, not looking after the fork but also the riding condition someone has.
Fox look nice but for my riding I don’t feel that my Revs are lacking, I’m probably not using them to the full potential.
Bottom line is, look after any fork and it will keep on working. Fox look very good and if I would buy one brand new than I would make sure I look after it, especially that wiping the dust off the uppers and seals, then either some oil on seal lip or a spray with some fork juice doesn’t take more than 2 minutes.
[edit] My mate has a 44 RLO Bomber with the 3 year no service warranty. They are not super smooth straight out of the box, but once bedded in they do work beautifully. After almost 2 years and no service whatsoever the fork still works super smooth, no wear to the black anodizing, no oil or air leaks. His is a fairly simple model but seems Marzocchi upped their game.
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