Everything looked great until mounting my wheel into the thin little jaws of the new butterfly. This beauty would soon be mounted up and help me fly up hills.
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So I unwrapped the feather-weight, pretty cabon fork out of it’s cocoon and admired the sleek look. They must have forgotten to put the fork in the box! Nope, it was there. So, I thought what the heck try a Chinese knock off at right around $100.įirst try I received my fork from an Amazon order in less then a week and was so excited that even the double boxed product felt like I was carrying nothing. I wanted to go with a nice American designed high end carbon rigid fork but could not afford the new prices and could not find many used that I was willing to pay even the discounted price on unknown issues. I figured if I ride with a big tire and low pressure I will have some suspension and more lateral stiffness, the rest I use my arms and absorb the big stuff. fork so why not try rigid for a little while.
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On a side note, are there any machine shops that could make nice aluminum or Ti parts that are identical to the Rock Shox parts and just press fit and bolt or thread them back together to make the dead weight shock into a more ridable version? Anyway I figured I was getting pretty horrible ride quality out of the low end R.S. I’m not sure why there are not any medium priced suspension forks out there that work fine, don’t weigh 5 pounds, and come in old school straight steerer tubes. Ok, I was a sucker for trying about a 1 pound fork and dropping almost 3.5 pounds from my budget Rock Shox Recon Solo Air fork.