A while ago I acquired a Specialized FSR Ground Control pretty cheaply, and it came with some double-crown forks I don't recognise. (I've owned Manitou, Rockshox, Marzocchi and RST forks over the years.)
They look decently-made, with a cast & machined lower crown and a strong brake-bridge. They have preload adjusters on the top of each leg and what I think is a rebound adjuster on the bottom of one leg.
Weirdness: there is something like a disc brake mount on the left dropout, but the two holes are only 15mm apart...
Please would the assembled sages have a look at the photos on my Google Drive and help me work this out? Link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6f7YaXXUdz3Misa47
If there's other information or photos you'd like, please ask - I've been trying to identify these forks for ages.
Thanks very much...
Link doesn't work for me.
Do you get a 404 or 'permission denied'?
Post a pic on one of the retro bike facebook pages
Link works now it's been edited. Can't help with id but there were quite a few fork companies back then that aren't around now
What about the possible disc mount? Is that even what those two bolt-holes are?
I'd have said Pace of some sort, with the faux-carbon etc but it can't be or ten other better informed folk would have already said it
Shoktech or shokwave?
Looks like an old Marzocchi to me, there were some odd ball ones back in the day with different clamping methods for the brace and the like (that brace might be after market too). Looks kinda like a Jnr/Mr/Super T mule
EDIT: scrap all that. Adjusters look too far off. Now thinking Shockworks but can’t find a match
Yep, was musing on the possibility of an aftermarket brace.
IIRC, that two bolt set up was an early, stillborn, attempt from Marzocchi, but struggling to back up that memory.
I suspect it's pre-97 or utterly shit, though, as the mighty Z1 came out then, and this fork looks older/shittier.
Could be RST, defo not the likes of Pace.
The clamping round the legs for the brace looks a bit like Stratos but there doesn’t seem to be oil pissing out of them, might have all gone? Other bits look Marz.
What is the text under the crown? TM 06?
First thoughts are stratos MX6, or a white brothers, forget the model name though
My old Obsys forks circa 2000 used to have a 'disc tab' exactly like that.
Def not mx6 I have a set. Used them in the 2013 Megavalanche. My knee pads still have the stains from the total loss lubrication system.
Using the power of awesome retro biking mates, I have been informed it’s a Durango DH.
PM me your email address and I will send the image I have from a 1998 catalogue.
It retailed for 1595 DM, sed coil and elastomer springs and I believe had 105mm travel.
It retailed for 1595 DM, used coil and elastomer springs and I believe had 105mm travel.
What a time to be alive...
“You had to be there man”
😉
Actually at that time I was riding a Manitou X-Vert Super. Hollow crown, 105mm travel + 5mm negative travel. Used titanium coil and MCU spring, had separately externallly adjustable high-speed compression and rebound damping. It was a really nice fork for the time - cost around £450, I think...
Yes, my first decent forks were X-Verts. Nice and plush, well damped, or at least that's how I remember them. Would love to try some again to see how they compare to modern forks.
Yeah, that's correct, it says TM on one side and 06 on the other.