Looks quite similar to an Ibis?

Nope – colour, performance v weight v cost – brand is irrelevant for me

Ah…I see you’ve bought what I was just about to recommend! Lol

I have the older Comp1 – exceptional bike for the money

Easton arc 27mm and 30mm with DT 240 and DT rev spokes 1640g on my HT.

Very impressed so far. Starbike for hubs, R2 bikes for spokes and CRC for rims. Came in at just over £400 for the lot…but when £v€ was much better than at present.

Money no object? BTR ranger or Nicolai AM :)

Having had both a slackline and switchback, the switchback is the better point downhill bike of the two for sure. 64 HA and 415mm stays make it a proper ripper and fun. It’s not bad on the ups either. I run mine at 140mm tho, most seem to use 150 pikes.

There’s a newer version of the switchback being released in the next few months…but reckon it will be £600+.

Nearly bought a Shan, but the pressfit BB put me off.

Not sure if it’s true, but heard the Bird was a bit harsh.

There’s also the Orange P7 to consider perhaps?

For all the hassle removing, refitting, dirtying the cars insides…just get a rack. If you’re in Birmingham you can have my halfords one for free :)

Commencal meta AM?

I bought mine when they first came out. Think I may even have been the first in the UK and were about £540 (exchange rate was brilliant back then with the €)…so £400 less than Fox 36 (RRP anyway) and roughly the same as Pikes.

I bought them for a HT with the intention of running them between 140-160. Having owned Pikes I knew I would need to buy new airshafts to run at 140/150, so another £40-£60.

Also owning xfusion previously, I wasn’t convinced by their finish. Lowers scratched up really easily and were always really wheezy. It was a toss up between the new roughcut and diamonds at the same price (Bos were too expensive and heard horror stories from my YT capra fellow riders). All black Matt finish did it in the end (don’t think MRP stage was available back then).

The masonry finish was in fact just some residual coating after the fork was treated. A dab of IPA and a rub and the finish was actually perfect. My bad for jumping the gun saying the finish was poor!

In fact while building my HT, I proper knocked my stand and the bike nose dived forks first into the concrete…barely a mark on them (still hasn’t stopped me invisiframing them tho!).

Minor niggles – too much grease in the compression dial, so you couldn’t really hear or feel the clicks – Ronnie talked me through sorting this via email – and quickly.

The first batch didn’t come with o-rings so I got annoyed that couldn’t see how much travel I was using. Again emailed Ronnie – o-ring in the post from Silverfish asap. Latest ones have o-rings.

The mudguard isn’t long enough for UK weather conditions – but fair play for thinking of this feature.

Yes, they take a bit of fettling to get set up, they are a bit heavier than pikes (and that’s subjective depending on how many tokens you’re using too remember) – but once you have done this and they’ve bedded in they are the smoothest forks I’ve used (and not prepared to pay stupid money for Fox 36 to test against). I’ve had no clunking sounds or wheezing at all either.

Running Maxxis HR2 2.4 front and no clearance issues at all, but that could be due to 30mm internal width rims flattening the tyre out.

There are tons of videos for set up and maintenance on their website with a bit of a forum like cane creek do.

In my opinion for the price I paid, the performance I’m getting from them on my Stanton Switchback at 140mm, they’re the best fork I could have purchased.

If you’re looking at continuous 160mm use then it gets a bit harder with the new Lyric performing exceptionally well.

Ronnie – if you’re listening, I know your brand colour is black and green, but if you could make the dial caps and axle in various colours (or even just black) it would really help fit in with frame and component colour choice. Stupid I know but having that extra dimension/choice would really appeal to some potential customers.

Sorry for the long winded post! Lol

Yay…just booked 4 tickets! I gave up after 5 mins thinking they’d all gone!

Thanks poisonspider

As said above, all good advice. I looked at pics of current 2016 forks and realised if you line them up against where the fork maxle housing starts to protrude you can line them up pretty well

That is the least user friendly website I’ve ever seen

Thanks V666ern…much appreciated. Trying to stop the cycle of ‘if it happens to me then I’ll pass it on to some other unfortunate to make up for my loss’

Daffy – thanks for the payment buddy. Still can’t see addressees on PP. Can you email me it please? Cheers Rob

Thanks chocolate, can you email the address pls too. Can’t seem to see it using mobile app.

The tyre was £25 or £30 new and the jockey wheels are £30ish new.

Wait for the goods and then let your conscience guide you :)

Got it stoddys. Thanks

Chocolate £6 for postage (courier). Pp address same as my profile for tyre and jockey wheels. Thought it fair to give rotors to Daffy

Daffy – rotors are yours £3.50 rec del and thanks for making a donation

Pp address same as my profile email

Stoddys – £3.50 for rec del. Same pp address as my email

Chocolate do you still want the 180mm rotor, or just the tyre and jockey wheels?

6 bolt mate and comes with all the screws

Sorry…steel frame

Looks a bit meh to me.

Not sure about the 631, but the Ti one I had was a great allrounder. Even pikes set at 160mm wasn’t too wandery.

Replaced it with a steel switchback

Have a look at Easton Arc’s…but be quick as they sell out really quickly. CRC have just re-stocked

AC are a bit prone to damage.

Currently building easton arc 27mm on DT Swiss 240 with revs, coming in at 1640g. Using arc 24mm would get you to 1600g

Thread revival

4130s0ul – how are the diamonds and bike doing? Got a set for my switchback and just waiting to build some wheels before completing my build.

5’7″-5’8″ here on a medium. 29″-30″ inside leg.

Ditched the 150mm reverb for a 125mm integra. Still a bit of post showing but better than not being able to reach the pedals!

Currently running the stock 50mm stem with 800mm 20mm rise bars…but will be trying a 30mm stem shortly.

Hora – I’ve got a KS LEV 31.6 125mm for sale…but go on holiday tomorrow!

Try dcrwheels. £70 per rim plus £8 postage (postage the same for up to 10 rims)

Cheers

I buy 2nd hand cars…but new bike frame and swap all the components.

OK, not been able to fit them yet or test them…but the finish on the bottom of the lowers is a either very expensive or a bit cheap…in a hand painted sorted of way! I can see the brush strokes!! :/

Forgive me for trying something new and being excited about it! :) I don’t get out much apart from biking…bloody kids!

If I could’ve bought 160mm 650b RCT3 new boxed with warranty for £350 then I probably would’ve.

Jmatlock…intended for a Stanton switchback at 140mm but will also try them at 160 on a Capra. Can also then tell how they are in comparison to the current pikes on the Capra too.

Not many big diameter forks at 140mm apart from BOS (expensive and non adjustable) and perhaps new X fusion roughcut (cheaper but no high speed comp)

Got them for £130 less than RRP…so still happy! :)

Oh dear…I bought the black ones

New pikes will be around £600 I reckon, but the DVO is adjustable between 140-160 with high speed compression…and if the damper needs a professional service, you take it out and post it at minimal postage cost.

Sofaboy – I’ve got 2 sets of American Classic All Mountains – (1650g) for sale. One set with the decals removed and all black spokes and another with white decals (both set up tubeless and with valves).

Email roberttaylormatthews@googlemail.com for pics etc

Cheers

Nice work Stevied!

Anyway you can quickly patent it?

Where did you get them from M6TTF?