“We’re overnighting a package to you to arrive on Saturday” came the message from RockShox. What could be so important that it arrives on a Saturday?… the same… Saturday as the first Olympic XC race…
Ooh, interesting. What on earth could it be?
As we suspected (and anticipated) the package that appeared this morning was very much bicycle fork shaped. If our suspicions were correct, then this would have a lot to do with what goes on later today on the other side of the world.
And, as we unwrapped it, a very distinctive shade of blue was glimpsed. A variation of the SID Blue that’s been a very familiar sight at cross country races since the late ’90s.
The message that came with it said:
“This is a very special edition of our RockShox SID fork. This limited edition colour has been produced to celebrate SID’s glorious history of Olympic wins, with gold medals at every edition of the Games since 2000.”
One of the great things about mountain biking is that the level of kit that the pros race, is readily available to mortal riders – and this is true of the SID fork. Although this is a special colour, the actual model of SID World Cup, with Charger Damper, remote lockout, carbon crown and steerer and so on, is available for sale in local bike shops.
Today is the Women’s Olympic Mountain Biking in Rio. Tune in to see some of these forks being ridden like they’re meant to be.
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Wrong timing for their publicity unfortunately. The winners forks seem to have DT Swiss stickers. Maybe I’ll be able to get some sid’s at a lower price.
Well, DT didn’t send us any, so they’ll have to make to with having an Olympic champ. 🙂
It’ll be interesting tomorrow with Schurter (DT) vs Absalon (RockShox)… which will be cause of much fork-brand smugness if either of them win…
& a 650b fully was quicker than the 29er hardtail?!
Are they permanently locked out for gravel path performance?
DT Swiss win both XC Golds…
What happened to all the RS1 forks? Didn’t see one at the Olympics, I thought they were Rockshox’s top xc fork.
There was definitely at least 1 pair of RS1s around yesterday.
What were the forks with the blue stantions? I forget who had them.
Maxime Marotte. What forks did he have?
DT Swiss is now sending us a fair of Olympic-spec forks to look at. 🙂
ir_bandito: Suntour Axons
https://twitter.com/CanalRio2016/status/767417038604206080
Peter Sagan had SIDs, but with a black crown:
https://twitter.com/tinkoff_team/status/767628771117690880
Thanks nach.
Now where are the blue stanchions?
An article about SID’s is pointless without a genuine weight shown… and difference in weight to current models 😉
ir_bandito in the second photo at that link.