Hi All,
After a little advice from the STW hive mind....
Building up a Chameleon as a singlespeed. It will be used for various activties covering the range from XC to some jumping/DH (although nothing huge). Can't decide between Pikes or the new Revelations. Like the light weight of the Revelations, maxle light options etc but not sure on the strength front although they are marketed as a trail fork...
Thoughts please
Cheers
Shorts
Basically, if you're buying new, you have to ask yourself if you want coil or air. Revs = Air & Pikes = Coil these days.
Otherwise Pikes are slightly beefier, but there's not much in it.
Cheers Peter, good to hear not much difference in strength, although likely to cost me more money 🙂
Preference for Air and keen to keep the weight down, the Chameleon isn't such a light frame after all!!
[url= http://www.sram.com/node/143/brand/rockshox/src/fam ]are you sure pikes= coil, revs = air?[/url]
There's OE Air Pikes around but, AFAIK, aftermaket ones are all coils.
Don't mind being wrong though. 🙂
I suspect you are right about OEM as I recently bought some "new pike air 454s" off ebay. They came from taiwan and had no box/docs.
They were new though- had the little plastic thing clipped onto the maxle to stand them on, no SFN or any sign of one having been fitted, and a shorter steerer than my other RS forks.
Was very pleased to get them as air 454s seem quite rare second hand. Significally cheaper than equivalent revs- air uturn maxle etc.
docrobster, do you know the name of the guy selling them on ebay?!
Was very pleased to get them as air 454s seem quite rare second hand. Significally cheaper than equivalent revs- air uturn maxle etc.
Could just be old stock. I had some 454 airs. Lovely forks. 🙂
wondered when that question was coming! 😆
xstuffmarket was his ebay name
listing said it was last one though.
Got some good condition 454 Pike dual airs for sale
Tracey
Hey Tracey, so they are not the U-Turn model?
I would get some Revelations, such as [url= http://www.flyingfoxbikes.com/shop?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=65&category_id=14 ]these ones[/url]
I've got a 2009 chameleon and I built it up with 454 Air pike uturn's(recommended by someone on here who had tried 3 other forks on the frame and decided that the burlyness/adjustability was ideal for the frame) .
Even with a burly'ish build it still 'only' weighs 27lbs which when I was building it was it's target weight.
BUT my GF has 2010 relelation team uturns on her blur lt2 which are excellent (but expensive) Which I would love to try on this frame.
I have Pike air forks and I personally thought the weight difference between them and the 09 Rev forks was negligible with the only weight saving coming from the crown
It is a tough one, although Pikes seem to be as rare as rocking horse **** so may have to go with the Revs
Forks arnt uturn
Shame Tracey, i really want the U-Turn so i can dial the forks down for pump track use and what have you