Rockshox Upside Down Carbon Rigid Teaser Pic?

Wouldn’t that hinder quick wheel changes in races?
They already file off the lawyer tabs to speed things up.

Half of me wants to see them try another crazy Roubaix-specific fork.

I cant believe people sit and analyse shit like this to the nth degree.

Half of me wants to see them try another crazy Roubaix-specific fork.

I cant believe people sit and analyse shit like this to the nth degree.

Liar 🙂

Liar

yeah your actually correct ,I just read the entire thread

The fork on that bike in the fb pic doesn’t appear to have a brace – yes I am that sad to try and look that closely at it – and the crown/steerer interface doesn’t look at the right angle for the Lauf either.

My guess would be either a rigid 29er fork or a USD.

My other guess is that I need to get out more….. 😳

Doesn’t look strong enough for any suspension units to be attached, get the feeling it’s not going to be very exciting when we do see what it is anyway 😉

Another Rockshox marketing dept. promo fail maybe in the offing 😆

Probably LoCo
The only thing that keeps me wondering is that little capped area on the right-hand leg (not that it looks particularly removable to access suspension gubbins).

The brake hose guide is quite open – a bit like the reverb hose seat tube guides. Perhaps the hose has to move…

We need Jamie to do some comedy versions of what might be coming…

Jamie, Jamie, Jamie…..

🙂

my mate who knows someone who once crapped in the same toilet as Sam Hill said it was a new special dropper post fork butter knife thing.

You heard it here first.

I don’t get the ad ‘Of mountain biking upside down’ – what does of mountain biking mean and no coma after biking. Doesn’t make sense to me. ‘Off mountain biking’???

edit: I get it now, I only looked at the top part of the ad! Road disc fork then, hardly groundbreaking though.

a RAC- like upside down fork, sadly i doubt it

It looks way too big to be a road fork. Here’s an image of another road fork for comparison (look at the steerer for scale):

Fatbike fork!

Another Rockshox marketing dept. promo fail maybe in the offing

This 😀 The wording suggests they are going to imminently revolutionize the world of something two wheeled that may or may not be MTB. Big claims given the variety of forks and sus approaches already out there…

Is it really a fail? Rockshox marketing often seems to take the piss out of hyperbolic marketing precisely when it does the same. Remember all the “this shock is so good an ordinary rider can’t have it” and the constant ramming home of how “murdered out” the new Pike was? They’ve got something new, it’s a bit different to the old thing, but not by much, and they need to advertise it.

Forget to add enough smileys etc for the irony of my post maybe, I like new stuff, however I am becoming cynical in my old age and all the ‘new’ developments 😉
The marketing works as it takes the mic. And gets people to react whether they understand it or not, outrage or smirk 😉

Edited as didn’t read the post above properly.

It looks way too big to be a road fork.

+1, especially if the steerer in the picture is tapered…

Upside down fork:

OK, so they turned MTB upside down with the RS-1, but I still reckon that’s going to be a USD road/cross fork.

Which would be a very interesting piece of kit if it is!

If it does turn out to be a carbon fatty fork, I’ll be disappointed. And bored. 🙂

ohhh tense… speculation… ohhhh

Where are these pics coming from?

Their facebook page.

shouldn’t it read
“The Re-release of RS-1”
I thought their first ever fork was the RS-1
seems like they have sacked the fork naming guy and are just re-hashing old names for new forks now.
Still looks interesting.

Cyclocross suss fork?

Very interesting – the use of carbon for the uppers and crown is pretty innovative.
So I was right about that little cap 🙂

It’s a FatBike USD fork then?

Cyclocross suss fork?

Are you allowed to run suss forks in CX?

Are you allowed to run suss forks in CX?

Who cares? Ditto re road. Who cares? The majority of consumers/users of bikes don’t race under UCI regs, so can use what they want. A USD road/cross fork would be lovely on a tracks and trails CX bike.

If it’s a fat bike fork though, well, just meh.

Suspension on a cross bike defeats the point of a cross bike.

Rough composite of what we have so far.
As mentioned, proportions look more mountain bike/fat bike than cross/road

so they have reinvented the marzocchi rac!

Is it possible that the two photos are of different forks? The leg profiles seem very different……….

As mentioned, proportions look more mountain bike/fat bike than cross/road

Once put together like that, I have to agree.

I couldn’t put it together any other way while keeping each released photo at the same scale. Obviously the length is unknown.

Hopefully there are some guards over the lowers.

Is it possible that the two photos are of different forks? The leg profiles seem very different……….

They do don’t they? The shot of the lowers is definitely from a different angle but the top half looks to be a kind of flattened aero shape and the lowers look round. Very odd.

However referencing by eye the stantion diameter to lower steerer tube diameter the stantion (actual) slider, from the picture above would be about 38mm, which bring into question weight etc.
This is starting to annoy me know
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