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Just wanted to check in with the collective bike brain.
I bought a 2nd hand Felt with a a Recon tk silver 100m. I had no high expectations of the fork. I was planning on turning the bike rigid ss so it didn't matter. Except before i stuck the carbon fork on i took it out and threw it down some of the usual trails and the fork was great! So i thought it deserved a service and maybe converting to 110. And it got even better!
So I've bought another one now for a build I've got on.
Anyone else had good/bad experiences of this fork? I'm not sure if my judgement is way off or if I've discovered a little gem. They're progressive, smooth, well damped, rebound adjustable and with 32mm uppers they're stiff enough for the 29er.
They do weigh over 2kg though...
Yeah I had a set on a Trek Stache , they were 120mm and bolt through but they felt really good to me . A bit heavier than Rebas but you don't have to worry about the anodising coming off the stanchions .
Ahh... So I'm not going mad! Thanks Ramsey Neil.
They are great forks for the cash. I used to have one on my Specialized Camber and it was actually better than the Reba which replaced it (until SRAM finally got their act together and sent me a Reba that worked).
The only downside I found was that the rebound stroke was a bit loud.
Not sure if you can still get it but they used to do an RL version which had the same damper as a Reba.
Yeah they do make a swipey noise on the up that's true.
It's not a bad fork but the turnkey damper and rebound damper are crude and quickly lose control on rough ground. The TK damper does not offer midstroke compression damping /suppoet but has a lockout switch.
If the silver model has the steel stanchions I don't believe you can upgrade the dampers, the gold model with aluminium stanchions easily accepts Reba parts - I got a Recon gold TK on my new 29'er, I got a motion control DNA damper and rapid recovery rebound damper. Night and day improvement