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grumm, no need to apologise! it was white before so IMHO its an improvement (and saved a quarter of a pound, woop!). the bars are 750mm.

thanks for the usual stw comments, guess id better mtfu and take them on the chin cos ive dished out my own fair share.

mboy, they are quite wide i guess, they are the first bars ive had that i dont have my little finger hanging off the end though so im happy.

duggie, its uberchav aint it? individual letters from halfrauds, i was going to get a slikgraphics made up but they never got back to me so when i was buyingsome copper grease i spotted them and acted on impulse. you dont really see them cos they match the frame pretty well. they may come off though!

rs, one finger braking all the way! think a chrome bar might be a bit much, white lg1 would look nice though…

dirt magazines site is good, especially if you like to follow the dh and 4x world cup, nationals etc.

possibly not, the lowers of the 2010 revs are different to last years revs and last years/current pikes. you can with 2009 revs and pikes though, the crown on the revs is lighter.

you can also take the lowers off, mask them off and do a colour change for about a tenner!

whats that in £££?

you could get rutland cycling to price match it then hit them with one of their 10% off vouchers that they seem to apply to any item, even if its alaready on sale. you can get one by pestering them on facebook. that would get it down to £261!

standard one will be fine.

you could give it a try, i tried similar things to keep a ks i900 seatpost running smooth over the winter. the problem was they only work so well, crud will find a way in everywhere and they are no substitute for maintenance.

yes, lots of people take it too far. if you are sensible and dont compromise strength or confidence then its all good. for example, my 5 was 33lbs earlier this year. i was running a dual ply rear tire because i was pinching regular tyes every ride even when running tubeless, i had a gravity dropper and a talas 36 and was running 2 and a bash up front. ive knocked 4lbs off by going for a ust rear tire which has held up great, not a single pinch in 2 months, swapped the gravity dropper for an ibeam seat and postt combo as all my mates were stopping to drop their seats anyway, swapped the forks to 150mm revelation as the talas were great on the downs but 130 never felt right for the ups and alongs and 160 was too slack and tall, the 150mm revs feel just right. ive also ditched the front gears for an e13 lg1+ chainguide as i hate using the granny anyway. 28.8 lbs just feels faster and i havent touche anything i didnt want to change such as my heavy pedals that are really grippy, my wide rims, big bars etc…

its currently being stripped, polished and lacquered to see if that doesnt drop a few grammes (and cos i dont like white), theres no way ill be putting any carbon stuff or ti bolts or any of that jazz on though, not worth the worry IMO.

send em back, i would.

just keep em well looked after; fork juice or similar every ride, keep a clean rag just for your forks, whip the lowers off and give the seals a clean and the foam rings a bit of float fluid every 3 or 4 rides and they will be schweet as throughout the winter. dont use a hose on them either, wash em carefully by hand being careful not to force dirt down the seals.

521's on bulbs is quite a chunky wheelset, you could easily shed some weight but keep em tough with one of the hope hoop options such as pro2's on stans flow rims or go a bit lighter and try a 719 rim or something like that. my mate has the xt wheels and really rates them, ive no experience of them myself though. theres not really many bad brakes out there, just choose the ones that balance weight and performance in a way you feel happy with. i have recently used formula, avid and hope but ended up staying with hope because of maintenance issues and breakages for the other two.

glad we cleared that up!

i have no idea what that is meant to imply, the litle dotty things suggest you have more to add?

mine came with sintered. they do look pretty dont they?

so perhaps it comes down to whhat kind of rider you are and what kind of riding you do rather than more money than sense then? just because maverick work for you doesnt mean everyone else is wrong, if you can ride exactly the same on mavericks as stiffer forks you are either far more skilled or far more sedate than me, TBH it matters not to me which the answer is.

as for the marketing comment, i cant remember a single rockshox add, thats how influenced i am. i went for them after trying mates out and finding them at the right price. same for the fox forks ive had, though i do notice their adds, boring as they are. your comment about 'larger manufacturers' suggests you may have fallen for the 'niche is best' hype commonly found on here though. whatever floats your boat.

how are tech m4's more powerful than tech x2's? how are tech v2's more powerful than both? it can only be mechanical advantage but theres definitely a difference, a big one. im not saying you are wrong, just that some brakes are definitely more powerrful than others, even using the same lever, rotor size and pad compound. i guess the size of the contact point with the rotor plays a big part too.

that is definitely a bargain 2nd hand, couldnt get anything better for that i wouldnt think.

ive had mine for 6 months or so and i really like it. it might be a bit of a faff till you get used to it and anyone who takes my whel off comments as such but ive either gotten better at it or used to it. back when i had a qr rear wheel i broke a hub at the point where it sits in the dropouts, snapped a couple of decent skewers and pulled my wheel out of the dropout on one side a few times so i like the security and peace of mind it brings.

that looks good! shame you werent going the other way

so the only reason people dont buy maverick is because they have more money than sense rather than these performance margins you speak of? if my fork rather than me is deciding what line i take then i know which side of the performance margin ill choose. FWIW i spent my cash on a pair of forks that have the same travel and weight and are significantly stiffer yet cost me £200 less than a maverick. (are they still £550 BTW). i dont know quite how that sits with the more money than sense argument if i spent less for better performance but perhaps you could explain it to me? admittedly they did only come in white so im bang on trend now, the shame of it!

cant see the pics, i ride some cracking footpaths though. never see another soul on any of the local ones.

the lever is quite long so you run the body of the lever quite inboard, especially if you like to just brake with one finger. the longer lever of course gives you more leverage. things like heat dissipation, piston size, fluid movement and all that jazz make a difference too but i dont know enough to explain that lot.

i had a pair of the dual crown 6" travel ones. yes, they are light but compare them to their competition and really i cant see any pros. when you can get a revelation with 150mm travel and a bolt through axle that actually stiffens the fork rather than just gives you an axle that doesnt fit anything else, a damping system that works well and seals that dont p!ss on your brakes, weighs pretty much the same and costs .about halfthen i dont see the point Or spend a bit more and go for a float with 160mm travel for less than 5lbs, you can pick those up with change from amaverick fork. even their travel adjust wasnt that great, just a shorter, locked out fork if i recall correctly. u turn, 2 step, talas etc are IMO much more useable. im not being a troll i just dont understand people using them for any other reason than brand loyalty.

Dual Air Maxle Revs! (349£ from Rutlandcycling)

plus 10% off if you pester them on facebook makes it £315. not bad for a £550 fork!

ive never ridden a maverick frame but had a pair of the forks and they were awful! so flexy i thought i was on forks from the early 90's.

blur 4x, blur lt depending on the fork you run, whats a heckler these days? i ride a five and like a slackish head angle on my trail bike so good luck with the search.

i also picked up a pair of 2010 150mm maxle revelations in dual air flavour but without the u-turn. £315 from rutland cycles, supposed to be £350 but if you ask nicely on facebook you can get a 10% off voucher.

on first impressions i was a little worried as they are visibly slimmed down from my pikes on my other bike and obviously way slimmer than the 36's they replaced. setting up was easy but ive had a few pairs of dual airs so know what works for me. good, useable range of rebound, not bad compression range but too easily nudged to be worth getting too fussy over it. weighed in at 3.9kgs. i quite like the motion control damping, i know it can get a bit overwhelmed but you can predict when its going to happen and as i run my forks quite hard i think that lessens the effect anyway. ive had a pair of pikes pushed and it is better, but they arent bad in the first place. its just one of those things where people percieve a problem because someone has mentioned it i think, you have to give them a bit of stick before you overwhelm them.

sorry, im going off point, ive ridden my forks twice, once local nottingham woodland singletrakc stuff and once in the peaks. spot on stiffness wise, didnt hit anything that made me think 'gosh these arent as stiff as my 36's' and i was trying to. they are a much more useable height for up, along, down riding compared to my 36's whic where great on the downs but always a compromise everywhere else. the head angle still feels confidence boostingly slack and the forks are good enough not to feel like a compromise on the downs. i definitely think i got more than i payed for so im happy! dropped aover pound off the front of the bike too which was more noticeable than i expected.

parkin clough is my fave tech singletrack at the mo, loving the first moorland section from win hill down towards the res for a less scary but still fast and flowy fix.

nope, still different lowers. no 'power bulge', is brake mount etc.

its a great little trail but as said above will be pretty dire in places now, there lots more weather proof trails in that area which are also easier to build a good loop from.

officially a year i think, though they look after you outside of that too. parts arent too costly anyway tbh.

bananaworld, i was waiting to find that out too!

yep, could be springs snapped. never snapped any myself on 4 sets of pro2's but my old man just serviced his rear hub and had snapped all of them. his was pretty gunked up too.

elaine anne, they are great hubs, easy to service and any warranty issues are sorted as quick as. if they arent doing what they should be its usually really easy to work out whats wrong.

jimmy, definitely up for a peaks one.

i DEFINITELY notice the stiffness of the 20mm maxle over qr, its even noticeable from a qr15 fork when you start whacking them about. like i said though, this is on a pair of pikes which have an extra pound of heft over the equivalemt qr15 fork so may be more than just the axle. they are definitely stiffer though.

ive got a set of pikes and have just bought a set of the 150 revelations. not fitted yet so cant answer the question sorry! my guess would be that pikes havent changed really since they first came out in terms of their build at least, so 4 or so years on they have perhaps refined and revised the design to save weight without sacrificing strength? i hope so anyway! i guess a lump of the weight is in having a hollow crown on the revelations, something plenty of stiff forks do already.

i could possibly do a midweek wales trip too, would need a bit of notice though.

what ride? been at work since 7am, here till 10pm!

did parkin clough the other day in the wet though, thats a treacherously cheeky fecker i tell you!

we should do snowdon rangers track just before the curfew kicks in next year

second that, though a pair of wheels i sent parcelforce 48 took a day or so longer than expected. its worth gonig for the enhanced cover for peace of mind i reckon, not to mention getting a proper fork box from your lbs in the first place. at a push, a wheel box with the fork put in diagonally works well though.