Manitou forks – anyone else find them magnificent?

But finding an alternative 130mm non-boost fork is like trying to find a neddle in a haystack.

buy a boost fork and fit spacers – remember that most forks like the pike, 34 etc can be lowered to 130mm so even if you buy a 160 you can change it.

mattoc and mezzer can be lowered to 130mm (my mattoc is now at 100mm on my pump track bike)

How easy are they to service at home?

easy as pie TBH. buying the correct tools does help alot though. only the new mezzer has a bladder damper and even that is easy to service.

I did have a set of Towers, in odd configuration. 100mm travel, straight sterer and 20mm bolt up axle.

not as light as a set of rebas by they rode so much better. supple when you needd it and soaky where you needed it!

gutted when the dropout snapped at the bolts.

woud buy another set of manitous without question.

they should not behave the way yours are

There must be an issue then. I don’t the confidence to do a lowers service, nor do I have the correct tools. Might send them off to TFTuned.

Thought I’d shove a wee update on, just for kicks.

Recently sold the Granite Chief that had the mattock pros on, comment from buyer afterwards: “man, these are lovely, progressive forks, just lovely”

idly speccing a bird AM( has turned into ‘whoops! I just bought a Pole Evolink frameset’ in the cyber week sale, and needed a pair of forks.

Mezze Pros (from Starbike – god help me after Brexit if they need warranty work) sitting waiting to be fitted, canna wait!

They are, importantly, the Rev B (or C?) editions that hopefully have solved the ill fitting bushings issue the first gen suffered from.

2 things that would put me off –

The after sales service seems a tad shite, and someone posted a pic of a silver pair on a local Facebook group this week, they looked like something you’d get on a littlewoods bike in 1987.