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I mean, my brakes are entry level and are like rubbing two sticks of butter on the disc, a step up from magura, and my groupset is bottom shelf, but the allure of a blue sid on a carbon frame was too much to push down the list of priorities.

carbon frame

Tart™

carbon steel frame is carbon real frame

Who doesn't like shiny new things though. Blue SIDs for everyone!

It’s balanced out by my steel road bike

EDIT: and massive belly

Brothers in arms

Check your bushings are good. Also I swapped the oil (not enough from factory) to motorex supergliss 100k, way nicer. Easy to do.

Checking through the weekend's XCO racing, very few of the pros have blues SIDs

Most appear to be black, with the only notable exception being Jolanda's white fork

Most appear to be black

Ah people with taste.

Forks should be black unless you have a blue frame. Then and only then will a blue SID not look ridiculous

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Do you want the 200hr service kit for your new forks for a fiver?!

There was a reason I didn't get black. It was either stock issues or the blue was cheaper. I will always buy the shittest looking version of something if it's cheaper.

I strongly disagree that the blue is the shittest colour! Love the blue sid harking back to the good ol days.
Who remembers the sid adverts from the late nineties/early 2000’s that would probably get cancelled in 2022?

Also… only a maniac would run a blue fork with a blue frame.

This is an acceptable reason

the late nineties/early 2000’s

bit insensitive, @PhilDAS wasnt born then

I was but a twinkle in my father's eye

He's almost as young as @platypus !

Who remembers the sid adverts from the late nineties/early 2000’s that would probably get cancelled in 2022?

Sort of. I remember the Marzocchi Bomber ones being quite blue themselves...

I have a softspot for bikes that are too heavy so I'm really excited about the frame I ordered. Now all that is left to is wait half a year:/

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only a maniac would run a blue fork with a blue frame.

Agree. If black was the cheapest and in stock I would have everything black.

I hate the blue SID as much as I hate the orange Fox stuff. Black you manufacturer idiots, BLACK!

Those Marzocchi calendars in bike shops... and people wondered why there weren't more women in the cycling industry...

That's because the pros are riding the 'Blackbox' version of all the SRAM / RS stuff. i.e next years forks. They were all riding the Blue SIDs back in 2020.

Blue SIDS are the only ones. Black ones may as well be a Reba.

It's a shame the new ones are dark blue though and not the original colour.

Also, purple ano FTW

When I throw it off a mountain later this year I'll get the spraycan out to 'fix' the blue...

You are blinded by nostalgia. You wouldn't accept a blue carbon fork on your road bike

I'm not so sure, people didn't believe me when I said I was going for purple ano on my road bike....

And road bikes are framesets with forks included whereas MTBs are definitely not.

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