I ran some 150mm coil U-Turn Maxle Sektors on a Blue Pig for a few months and I thought they were great forks at a really good price. The technology is basic tried and tested Rockshox stuff, the chassis is pretty much Revelatio, so nowt fancy. They’re plush, they’re mostly under control, they feel very similar to coil Pikes but lighter and maybe just a smidgeon less laterally together in really ‘hit it fast’ Peak rubbly stuff, but you’d probably only notice if you rode them back to back – this is the Maxle version I’m talking about.
I had vague ideas of sticking the better dual flow rebound side of a Team or 2011 Revelation in them, but because the negative spring is part of the rebound stack rather than on the coil side, you can’t do that, which is a shame, because with that or a Push rebound they’d be even better I think. I reckon on a full susser, hitting rocky repetitive things hard, they’d probably do what a standard Pike does at speed and overwhelm the rebound damping, but on a hardtail, I was never brave enough to get to that sort of point. Waiting for a Push upgrade, to come out maybe.
But yeah, good fork in my experience of them. As for second-hand Fox forks, hmmmm….
