I'm putting together a new bike (Cotic Solaris) and need some help choosing a fork as I have bugger all knowledge on the subject. Riding is mainly XC leisure. Budget up to around £400.
A decent lockout is a must as I have to use a fair bit of road to string local tracks together. Probably 100mm travel.
I love my rockshox Reba's if that's any help. They're nice an easy to service as well. Admittedly, I've never ridden any fox fork...
I have 100mm Reba's and they are great.
I think at that budget a RS Reba represents one of the best options. I have a set on my on one inbred 29er and cannot fault them. I would have preferred Fox (as that is what I had previously run on my 26" bikes) but could not afford them now.
The x fusion forks get good reviews topi think and would be in budget.
Oh and check out the German online bike shops forgo good prices (bike24, bike discount etc).
Fox ctd adjust 120-100. Perfect
Fox ctd adjust 120-100. Perfect
Ive owned a few sets of Reba's in the past and they've all been great, however every set I owned I found had a fragile lockout and suffered from the lock out being a bit rubbish - after forgeting to turn it off a few times id have to strip the fork and give it a good service to get the best from them. It got to the point where on my last set I removed the remote lock out so I wouldnt turn it on.
Anyway after getting a 29er i recently I got some White Bros loops - I wanted something abit different and had owned a set of white brothers in the laye 90s I thought id give them a go again.
They have been perfect. The lockout works on a magnectic damping system and has been great, the first 50miles were quite clunky but having read reviews I was expecting that. 6months on I have absolutely no complaints. White brothers are owned by MRP and have recently dropped the white brothers branding for their own. The bonus being you can pick up a set of loops for less than £400 now - mine were £450 six months ago.
i love marzocchi forks and would always recommend them...
these might be suitable for you...
http://www.merlincycles.com/2014-marzocchi-320-lr-forks-tapered-steerer-29er-65711.html
or if you can afford to go a bit higher...
http://www.merlincycles.com/2013-marzocchi-corsa-sl-forks-29er-tapered-steerer-60426.html