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I'm not a professional/talented rider or anyone special by any means, but I am one of the people who was invited to the launch and ended up leaving with a Podium Gold fork. Nothing on my bike matches anymore and it looks hilariously bad with all of the random colors on it, but I don't even care; function over fashion.
I am EXTREMELY grateful that I was even given the opportunity to go to Scotts Valley to check out all of the impressive new and upcoming products from Fox, Race Face and Marzocchi, and take home some cool new products that I am happily putting to use. It's exciting to swap out some of my favorite parts that I've been riding for almost a couple of years now with well-thought out new products that perform differently, while simultaneously freshening up my enduro bike right before bike park season here in California.
Because of my specific job and the department that I work in, I've been able to see and learn about a ton of really cool new products from a ton of different companies well in advance and it always makes me laugh to read all of the absurdly negative comments from people who have never even seen some of this stuff in person or have any idea how much thought, time and effort that the companies have put into research and development before they're released. If I were an engineer for any bike-related company, I'd probably never visit any sort of forum or comment section solely to maintain sanity.
The fork sort of matches some of the cat at least.
Also 10% off for the first 50 sold (49 now, cuz I bought a frame)
What is this "specific job" and do you have any job openings?
Good to see we can throw another shade of gold in the fork/dropper/X2 kashima colour gamut. Never seen the holy trinity match.
Throw in some Burgtec "Kash Bronze" components and you're golden.
Huh? Fox has generally been good about about backwards compatibility.
Prototype TRP Calipers on Intense Factory Racing bikes?
Those look dead on the Lewis LH4
The old spring design with the OTT negative spring allowed spacer travel changes, I think the SL spring uses a bypass dimple and air negative spring like Fox / RS, so needs a different length shaft to change travel.
Electric bits spotted on the super deluxe and zeb?Wonder if that's flight attendant stuff or just for telemetry
looks like the electronic version that some riders were on last season
it’s madness and I am outraged at these damn gold forx
Ultimates.
Looks like flight attendant but the coil version of the shock is selected people only apparently.
https://www.marzocchi.com/products/super-z?variant=40997171331174
The new Super Z is up on Marzocchi's website. I'm personally bummed that there is no coil version. The Z1 coil is one of the best forks I've ever ridden.
No one’s being absurdly negative about the fork matey. Just the colour. And no one needs to be EXTREMELY privileged (sic - work in the industry at a shop/dealer) to see that colour. It’s right there in all of the images we’ve been bombarded with.
Colour isn’t anything to get upset about as we can buy the same fork in the other colours and slap some aftermarket decals on it to tone it down or up to our liking. Just like the orange we discussed several pages back.
A bit late but I guess this was the Range VLT, lol
Wow sitting room tool box 👌🏻👍
Well... Tuesdays are usually the most efficient day to launch a product, most emails are opened/read on that day.
Mondays are busy days @work and emailboxes are full of crap you'd get through the weekend, so usually the boxes are cleared on tuesdays mornings or so.
And launching this kind of product on any other day might be too deep in the week: doing it on tuesday means you let 4 full days for the product to ke aknowledged by your community, just before the weekend where they would talk about the new shit on social rides.
(OR this is just about email opening statistics and I'm overthinking)
Take it for what it is - FOX Shox 50th anniversary appears to have occurred right as everyone agreed on a hue of Gold Lacquer for a new fork. ...the 60th Anniversary - everyone right now is said to have one Diamond Bedazzled Hose Anchor - subtlety in leu of recent feedback on the internet this week.
FOX Shox sincerely apologizes about their 50 years of creating products while the internet flourishes... I'd guess.
Maxxis DHR 2.5 tire options are on their website, if you use the drop down menu. They say sold out for now though.
https://shop.maxxis.com/collections/mountain/products/minion-dhr-ii?_gl…
Guarantee product managers/marketers who launched this Tuesday (trying to get the sea otter jump) regret it. It was overload and I’m surprised there wasn’t more coordination with media to prevent it. (I work in a marketing adjacent field and had a campaign launch the week prior, a bit over sensitized w/ launch dates).
Maybe analytics prove me wrong, but on Monday I’m already trying to escape work with bike distractions. Non-bike inbox stuff I mass delete.
just curious - was there a raffle/giveaway for the fork, or were they available for purchase to the attendees?
also, the comment about the fork matching the cat gets my vote for comment of the year.
Raww Jibb V2 is out with all the adjustability
https://raawmtb.com/pages/jibb-v2
All of the product that we received was provided to each of us at the event, there was an entire classroom-sized group of us from all around the world so nothing about this launch was inexpensive for them. We weren't asked to give any glowing reviews of anything or told what to (or not to) say, they were extremely open and honest about every question thrown at them and gave us the opportunity to ride at different places each day of presentations then asked us to try everything at our regular riding spots back home to really notice the difference in performance/ride feel.
Related: saw my first Cybertruck in the wild last week.
Not sure that this has been posted yet but first time ive seen a vivid with a flight attendant piggyback
Technically it's modular, so no great surprise there I guess...
New Yeti sb165 MX (in french)
https://fullattack.cc/desormais-mullet-mx-le-nouveau-yeti-sb165-affirme-son-role/