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I was operating on the assumption that the forks must be locked out at all times, but maybe that's a generous assumption.
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I operate on the assumption that the designer of the fork wasn't a complete idiot and designed in a blow-off valve for the 100% of the population who forget to unlock their forks at the trail head.
The only way to truly rigidize the fork would be to fill the air spring chambers with something incompressible.
Howard
Every time I look at it I find something that frightens me more. But the way the basket is attached to the lowers and the bars...so that vertical travel is delivering force through the basket and its mount - that's just a dentists bill waiting to happen.