gtr1 Posted August 31, 2016 Share So agree with Eldron, may see it more in marathon races. Also due to proprietory technology, not any wheel will fit the fork, so have to have dedicated spares :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock Posted August 31, 2016 Share No other colour for a SID imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted August 31, 2016 Share Maybe if it was a horizontal design it would have done better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Maybe if it was a horizontal design it would have done better 0 degree head angle for those square edged hits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted August 31, 2016 Share 0 degree head angle for those square edged hitsWould have been useful to that french lady that did a head over heals in the rock garden, would have loved a 0 degree head angle/angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted August 31, 2016 Share They are pretty ... and pretty light!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave303e Posted August 31, 2016 Share If you look at the motorbikes, an upside down fork configuration with 2 triple clamps(like a lefty) allows for more travel without lifting the bike in general, but the forks have to be in triple clamps and extend up to the top of the headset for you to gain that travel. The RS1 doesn't do that and is then limited fror travel like conventional forks. Another issue is that you have lovely stanchion tubes free and bare, nick past one rock and they are poked and so are your fork seals. That is why the lefty and all MX bikes have fork protectors. Any enduro rider will tell you that this is happens a lot easier than you think, I personally have sat and sanded a nick in the chrome of a Showa stanchion tube for hours before dropping a pretty penny on a new one cos it was unrepairable. Don't get me started on the lefty though. SFF or separate function for is the way the best suspended bikes are going, so lefty is going opposite to the top specialist suspension companies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyguysa Posted August 31, 2016 Share I know a few guys riding the RS1 and they love it! The new SID is rumoured to have the same internals as the Pike, so that will most certainly make the new SID my first choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaGearA Posted August 31, 2016 Share I saw one or two rs-1 's in the mens race tho..... not that it is relevant now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev null Posted August 31, 2016 Share I know a few guys riding the RS1 and they love it! The new SID is rumoured to have the same internals as the Pike, so that will most certainly make the new SID my first choice. Off course they will say they love it. If I drop 20k on a fork, I will not admit that a 10k fork will do just as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted August 31, 2016 Share I know a few guys riding the RS1 and they love it! The new SID is rumoured to have the same internals as the Pike, so that will most certainly make the new SID my first choice. Yes, the top models have the same Charger damper: https://www.bikehub.co.za/features/_/gear/gear-news/rockshox-announces-all-new-sid-fork-r4680 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanC Posted August 31, 2016 Share Cost factor comes to mind. RS1 brain is expensive. They should flock a lot more SID's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotSoBigBen Posted August 31, 2016 Share Probably going the same way as the fat bike 'craze' ???? Sent from my LG-D958 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchelicious Posted August 31, 2016 Share Having spent just a few rides now on the RS1and even as a dirt roadie, I can say without a doubt that it is way more responsive and confidence inspiring than my previous SID Brain. For XCO the couple of hundred grams saving makes a big enough difference to stick to the new WC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patensie Posted August 31, 2016 Share Rockshox Judy! Ahh good times but that was a darker blue wasn't it?We're standing at the start of the 2005 Rhodes mtb 'race' and our buddy elbows my boet to get his attention to the hot girl standing next to him. My idiot brother looks at her bike's fork in digust and says to Johnny, 'a judy???' , not noticing the beautiful blonde next to him.He was riding a jett at the time. We all wanted sids, though. still haven't given my boet a break on missing the girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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