FOX

Fox famously dabbled with an inverted DH fork in 2011, and quickly scrapped the project due to negative rider feedback, including excessive weight and torsional flex. 15 years later, they’re bringing back the inverted idea, but upping the difficulty by moving to a single crown platform. The new fork is heavy, unconventional, expensive, and risky, but FOX thinks it’s going to blow your mind. In fact, they’ve already secured spec for the Podium on bikes from at least nine different brands for 2026, which includes a mix of e-bikes and normal bikes. You can hear more about why FOX chose to make a...

We’ve owned all the versions of the Fox Transfer dropper post that have existed since it was first released in 2016 (and the D.O.S.S. before that), and they’ve largely been trouble-pretty as well as pretty good at their job. If there was one aspect that always irked us a bit, it was the fact that you needed some special tools to even consider servicing the thing yourself, which in this day and age is less and less acceptable to many (even if many riders are still perfectly happy handing in their bikes for service, many others want to be able to keep on top of maintenance themselves). Good...