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If it’s the one that was floating around NZ national champs them it’s a painted up Boxxer.
Transitions are manufactured in Taiwan
I'm aware, and have an understanding that 90% or more of riders have no business touching high speed compression or rebound knobs. There are many suspension company's making fantastic stuff for cheap. Suntour, Rockshox, Marzocchi and X-fusion all knock it out of the park with close to $500 suspension products for every day riders from XC to freeride. I love my Z1 and rarely do I find it unable to keep up to my 38 Factory while it does double duty on a hardtail on the same trails. And the Domain has been a reliable smasher of a park and freeride fork for 10+ years,
I'll elaborate on my question so there's not another mistaken shot at elitism. Where do they come from and why do they seem to pop up every 8 years or so? They seem to come out with a meh attempt to have a mid level fork or forks come to market, it reviews poorly and has absolutely zero support in any way other than a small US office that tried their best but ultimately it just wasn't doable and then they disappear again, making ok entry level stuff that seems to come and go on OEM stuff. In Canada it was like pulling teeth to get support for the Aquila, which was a half decent entry level fork that came on almost every 2017/18 hardtail, but if there was an issue with it, it was new fork time which was frustrating to customers.
I'm all fork RST to come out swinging to release a good product, but where Suntour, who i view as their classic competitor, dug deep and built the RUX and Durolux by beating their heads into the ground very publicly and ended up with a pretty dang good product, RST hasn't delivered the same way. It seems odd to have so many products to compare and test against but always come up short.
It is actually an RST - that bike came through my shop for some quick set up and it was nothing like anything else I've seen. I seem to remember the compression damping had a million clicks from super soft to basically locked out. No idea whats in side them but felt smooth enough to be serviceable?
What about the new shimano brakes? any idea when they drivtrain or brakes will launch?
June
Interesting! I was sure I saw a little debonair stamp on one of the stanchions. Making things up as I go along haha
To be fair I was sure I misread the text when he said it was an RST.....hadn't even thought of them in years! But apparently it is a current product...they have service vids online and the damper is a fairly normal cartridge with shims and oil.....just not sealed with an IFP or anything. (and yes I definitely don't take for granted that every damper uses shims or something that resembles modern technology even in 2025....)
Correct me if I'm wrong but that looks like a 29er Rear?
Excellent points. Up until maybe 10 years ago, you could find RST products in local bike brands of third world countries (I'm speaking from experience here, I'm Argentinian). Then, SunTour started to gain market share. These days most entry/supermarket bikes have unbranded or same-brand-as-the-bike forks, mostly AliExpress basic stuff.
Still, RST seems to be big in the APAC area, and in some way, in Brazil. You have to understand there's no way for a guy with a basic income of less than 250 USD to get the kind of money necessary to buy a brand new Fox 40 or Rockshox Boxxer.
They RST 8-year resurrection cycle has more to do with the way tech trickles down and gets cheaper to produce. Still, they do awful stuff such as making parts that should be metal in plastic. I understand, you have to cut some corners to offer a double crown fork with an hydraulic cartridge for less than 600 bucks, and you won't notice the flaws until something breaks, but they still survive by being cheaper than most brands.
The zero support statement is also true outside the US, but still, when you have a big (and mostly, unnoticed for the big media) chunk of the DH/freeride movement building their bikes from the frame up by buying grey market components from AliExpress/eBay (such as in Russia, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Mexico, South America, APAC), you need to understand zero support means nothing when you get the same level from the big brands, simply because there's no official rep in any of those regions, and the local guy importing/smuggling spare parts would charge you three times the retail value in the US/EU, and you have to pray for the exact spare you need to be in stock.
Also, to buy a big-brand suspension product in the countries I mentioned before, either you order it from USA/EU and deal with the customs and taxes, or it comes stock in a bike, or you buy it from someone who bought a complete bike and is stripping it down for profit. There's practically ZERO brand representation for Fox, Rockshox, SunTour, etc. The wholesale bike suppliers/importers would bring in whatever is cheaper or in stock at the time of ordering. So, in essence, the importers are basically using RST to fill the gaps there.
I see RST doing these product releases just to still keep some of their '90s prestige. Here in Argentina (and most of the third world), when all SunTour had to offer was the spring based 7007 and Rockshox had the Quadra and Mag 21, RST had decent elastomer basic forks, and they made a name for themselves for being dependable enough to justify buying a complete bike if it had one of their products. They still lack any kind of formal/regular media presence though.
Looks like the Forbidden eMTB (I'm assuming) will be 'landing' at Sea Otter.
he was invited by cpt. obvious
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Thats great info, thanks!
Also looks like there are no rebound or ramp chamber valve on the either of the lowers, looks like they are just bolts to me.
in an ironic twist of fate my one up now has Active Ride
Free upgrade!
Wow I've never considered an Ari until that new Timp Peak. Nice to see an ebike being sold as a frame, even if it is expensive, but transferrable lifetime warranty?! (this is a first for a DTC brand to do lifetime warranty at all right?)
Also, 600wh or 800wh battery that can be swapped or range extended, so all of us should be happy in some configuration.
Vertical mount crab link without trunion.
It would be really hard to buy a Vala or a Regulator over this if you can come to grips with owning an Ari.
There were pictures of that e Druid online yesterday for a hot minute, can’t remember if it was in here or somewhere else but they got removed pretty quickly. I think everyone kinda knows what’s coming anyway.
Couple fade to black fade colours and a full black one.
Find it back boys. 🙃
Looks like Specialized Gravity are riding for a different brake company this year. Does anyone know what brand it is?![]()
Are these the rumoured Brembo brakes, would make sense as they are already sponsored by Ohlins?
I know Brembo was rumored earlier, especially since they've bought Öhlins. Not sure if these are them, but someone else might have more info.
The clamp design on those looks very similar to the new TRP brakes released last month.
Image for comparison:
It looks like a trp before it hits the lathe and has all the extra material taken off to give it some style. It's just machine billet at this point.
2 Chainz spotted on Finn Iles' story? My brain tells me it functions in a similar way to that zoceli vysoko.
Looks to me like they both use the Matchmaker design. Which is a good thing, IMHO. Dialing in ergonomics with MM is less fiddly than with any of the iterations of I-Spec.