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had a man buy a bike at work, brought back the forks 2 weeks later. 2 months later, DT Swiss returned the forks 'fixed'. 2 weeks later, man is back, forks are broken. We replaced with Kashimas instead due to all the trouble.
Avoid....! They make decent enough wheels but dont go near the forks
Bugger, better sell mine quick sharpish 🙄
Had my exm 130 for just over a year nothing gone wrong with them had there first service and they still work 🙂 was serviced by pace too.
My pal's got some 150's on his 305, plush as fu*k they are. He had some oil leakage probs but Pace sorted it (albeit with some 'oohing & aahing') they feel a lot nicer than the (Kashima) Floats on my 5.
Don't know about DT but the two Pace RC41 XCAM forks I own are a pleasure to ride
I have EXC 150's which I bought on sale from the US. I bought them for the weight, reliability (200 hour service interval) and the carbon finish. Given how they perform I really have no idea why Fox are so popular; and there certainly was a period when a lot of Fox forks seemed to be going wrong; but could do no wrong in reviews, in the same way that a non-Fox fork would have been slammed. Fickle bunch us mtb'ers I guess. I'll probably get another set when funds allow.
On my second pair of Dt Swiss forks now and absolute love them. Started off with XMC 130's that i got second half off my bro and there still buttery smooth as when they were first bought 4 years ago. I've bought EXM 150's for my new build because of how good the 130's were. There proper fit and forget forks.
I don't understand some of the comments on here. People going on about price when new Fox forks are way more expensive compared to DT swiss and don't need servicing every 15hrs compared to 200hrs service intervals for the DT swiss.
You can't make a comparison between the dampers used by Pace and now used by DT! DT now run 2 types of damper > the single/twin shot style dampers, which were designed purely by DT and launched in 2010, and the LC2 (Launch Control 2) damper, which was based on the the old Pace damper BUT improved and reliability increased, also launched in 2010.
Forget comparisons between Pace and DT forks!
So it seems that one of the main reason that people don't buy DT forks in the UK is the lack of effort DT go to to promote them here and the thought that they're too costly.
Would more people use them if DT had a big promotional push and offered some discounts to retailers or would they stick to RS/Fox?
Must admit I probably wouldn't have looked at them if I hadn't liked my Pace so much.
For my part I simply cannot get over the massive price hike between the 2006 Pace RC41 (£539) and the DT Swiss assembled version (circa £800).
That's my main reason for buying Rockshox and not DT.
Absolutely nothing wrong with Pace design or engineering. In fact, lots right with it. Quality control is where they let themselves down. So different company, different QC = win.
They reason I don't have them is that they were £750 when I was looking, no specials around.
Got my 2011 XMM 140 Twin Shots for £449 from a bike shop in Sheffield. Think they might have some left but couldn't say for sure.