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To be specific, the clapped out remains of the entry level Scott with a quick hose down at the end of each day will be the "premium" rental option.

How dare you speak ill of Santa Cruz! Let the downvotes commence! In seriousness though the entry level scott is destined to be many a European bike park's "premium" rental option.

WHOA hold your horses the brake arm is cool and all, but is that a Radial ply Tacky Chan prototype I can see???? Praise the lord!!!

If you are running the fork super stiff you can lower anti-rise since it's not prone to diving. Most WC racers are so that makes sense to me. If you don't run the fork super stiff, weight transfer is accentuated and the bike seesaws when you go on and off the brakes.

It's very modified with a much higher main pivot and they are probably testing (trying out) a lower antirise value for whatever reason. There are for sure reasons to try it out on a Horst link when you are developing the bike.

I had a Mojo with X-Fusion. Friend was the local dealer and got offered a deal. Idea was to swap parts over time. It ended up with Fox 36 and CCDBA and full XT groupset as things wore out and items were in the sale. Still worked out cheaper than buying a better spec to begin with and I had it exactly how I wanted it.

It's the "we don't do a frame only option so here's the bare minimum" build imo

See that alot on road bikes and Santa Cruz... Carbon frames and cheap build kits.. Because somehow the Carbon frame will cover up the performance of the lower tier parts...

Fox is notoriously slow at publishing tech info....all the 2026 stuff that was released a while ago now still isn't up and I wouldn't be surprised if that was still several months away!

Maybe it's different in other places, but none of the shops around here drop the lowers, clean excess grease off, check oil levels, and do a simple push test at 0psi on every fork they sell. I've never heard of them doing that even on forks that come on complete bikes. At most they're going to take down rider weight / skill and set it up according to the chart's baseline settings and bounce up and down on it in the parking lot. And you definitely don't get that from online retailers, which probably account for most of the retail...

A few remarks regarding the Diaz video, since he is a suspension service tech, especially for new fork models, all the issue he sees are extrapolated by the fact that customer send him in case of issues, there probably a good amount of new forks in Diaz market that don't have those issues so they don't get sent to him. Same for any other suspension service center with fresh out of the box forks. Also fork alignment work in tandem with the tolerance of the front hub used. Not every front boost hub is 110.00 mm wide. This can have...

You don't think those 20 forks have been stripped and grease/oil volumes double checked and bushing clearance/how free they run without damper and spring in place? I think Fox would be insane to spend all that money to run a press camp and not make sure that those 20 forks were the absolute best version of the product that they could be.

I've reviewed a few forks for print. They're absolutely given more attention as far as QC goes. One distributor ran the fork in for two days, gave it a full service, then dynoed it before handing it over to me. Joke's on them, that one broke immediately. edit to save a new comment: Mr ROBOT, i appreciate the content you're making. It's rad, you actually have a valuable perspective, and quite entertaining for techy interview stuff. Please continue.

I’ve noticed that the suspension world seems to be heavily populated with people/companies that market themselves by shitting on others. This isn’t unique to MTB either, moto, offroad, etc all have it for some reason. Personally, being told that I need a product/service because something else is bad or other people are stupid makes me pretty skeptical. I’ve noticed that the brands with truly good products tend to not need to market like that.

Fox or whatever brand it is, IMO if the fork is new in a box with uncut steerer, you want it to work properly considering the rather large cost. I get what he's saying I've bough several new aftermarket fox and rockshocks forks over the years and it can be a lucky dip. Been bike nerds, we know alignment, bushing tolerance and lubrication is key to a forks ability to operate correctly. For every one of us nerds, there are 9 other average joe people who ride a sub-par product and ending up dropping 10psi at a time wondering why...

no one is denying that the product that goes to press camps isn't dressed up for the best experience. they're just stock products, however. there's nothing special about them aside from prep, so a "camp" product feeling amazing is certainly within the capabilities of every customer fork, right? if i bought at $2000 fork and it didn't feel amazing, i'd sure be asking fox or the dealers why and would get them to make it feel that way or give me my money back.

I think most of what you're saying is fair and makes sense... but I'd also be SHOCKED (no pun intended) if Fox, RockShox, etc. didn't triple check the product they bring to press launch events on a dyno or something just to make 100% sure that they didn't bring any outliers that slipped through manufacturing QC. There's people here on this forum for example, who've said that when they worked for Specialized, they would carefully go over every single bike brought to a press even to make sure it was running perfectly. I have no doubt that Shimano did something...