I am fairly tempted but a niggling doubt is they may be a waste of money and nowhere near as good as my Sid RCT3.
ahhh,but the weight! My inner weight weenie says!!
When I was at university I was sponsored by sainsbury engineering trust and designed almost exactly the same fork in 1991.
For what it's designed for I'd say it's a sensible solution. I'd love to give one a go (missus)
Would love a set to test on the dyno and on the trail 😉
they might be just the thing to keep a 29er SS light but with a tiny bit of sus, I find a little bit of fork sus helps on rough surface climbs to keep the flow over roots and so on.
"487mm axle to crown"
is that 'equivalent' to a 100mm fork with a bit of sag?
IIRC 475mm would be a suspension corrected rigid fork for 63mm travel suspension fork with sag for a 26" wheel.
Erm, damping?
...I'd be more worried about the tracking, there's nothing stopping each side of the front axle from moving independently!
[url= http://www.spanner.org.uk/2013/09/the-victorians-are-laufing-at-us/ ]http://www.spanner.org.uk/2013/09/the-victorians-are-laufing-at-us/[/url]
The bolt thru axle will do that presumably. No problem with a Lefty and tracking, and that's only bolted from one side.
$990? Ouch!
Interesting web link, nothing quite like someone who's never used a product slagging it off for a problem he imagines it might have...
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...I'd be more worried about the tracking, there's nothing stopping each side of the front axle from moving independently!http://www.spanner.org.uk/2013/09/the-victorians-are-laufing-at-us/
Springs/leafs are flat - they're far more rigid laterally than vertically.
was looking but was put off by possible import duty, someone will start retailing them after may2014 and have always thought they are over priced by about £100
who would buy a pair of used ones when the hit the classifieds