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Nope you're on the same track as me...it's these!
Shocktech!...they made hubs too...they also made a cheaper all alloy version of the fork.

Nope you're on the same track as me...it's these!
Shocktech!...they made hubs too...they also made a cheaper all alloy version of the fork.

What won that review? Manitou 3s or Pace RC-35s? I can't imagine that there were many contenders for their crown that year (Mag 21s/Mag 21SLs weren't that hot, Marzocchi XC-50s flopped around like spaghetti, Ronds weren't on general release and the Girvins/AMP research never did well in the tests).

Actually, who made those upside down forks about that time? All black, had canti bosses (i.e. not the Mountain Cycle ones). They were elastomer and reasonably priced (£280 against RC-35s and Mag 21s £350).

Halson design inversions.

Fuck you're good

I always loved the lawwill leaders personally....however, these were crap!

and these were laughable...bungee cord suspension that you clamped to your own forks..after turning them backwards. :)

92 Was the year. :)
http://www.mombat.org/992SuspensionForks.jpg

92 Was the year. :)
http://www.mombat.org/992SuspensionForks.jpg

MRC = McMahon? What happened to them anyway.

Also, I think that the AMP research forks were my favourite paralellogram design. Actually, there was another, possibly English. Looked like the Girvin, but didn't have the integrated stem.

Also, they should have had Specialized Future Shocks in there (back for 2010!) as they were pretty much up there at the time, certainly compared to the Scotts. They might have been 1993 onwards though?

Anyway, 1995 to 1997 was the time when it all got exciting. Everyone that was sort of fucking around trying to get stuff to work in 1992/1993 suddenly went bam! and released the forks that worked really well: Judys, Bombers, RC-36s, etc.

Marzocchi made the biggest leap forward with the bombers definately...they stopped worrying about weight and made forks that were actually stiff and amazingly smooth. After that everyone else had no choice but to step up their game, which is why so many independant machine shop style companies disappeared, because they couldn't do the forging and couldn't make the complex internals. People were bored of elastomers that went rigid in winter and like chewing gum in summer.

I think it was Quasar that made the Girvin style forks.

But who made the Girvin style linkage fork?

Also, I think that Judys were a bigger step forwards just because of the travel and the fact that people realised that with rebound damping they didn't have to mess around with elastomers if they weren't bothered about the weight, hence all the Judy DHs with springs in.

I think you're right. Didn't they do a carbon version?

yeah, the lynx.

Someone is going to go mental when they see all the suspension forks in the porn thread.

goes mental

nah, I don't care.. Not my cup of tea but I know for a fact there are people out there who don't like all the old steel I love from this thread

that Shocktech looks quite steampunky.

and these were laughable...bungee cord suspension that you clamped to your own forks..after turning them backwards. :)

that is crazy! shame it never caught on..

I always see a guy cycling around Hackney with one of those Campag discs on a low pro. Looks like a lovely but uncomfortable bike!

Well, its not a mile eater, for sure, but fine for about 10 mile or under.

me thinks it's time for a mtb porn thread. again.

with that bungee cord one, would having the brake mounted like that not pull those arms forward, lifting the front end and causing the cords to slip of the fork crown as they slacken?

via:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragnar1984/3727646252/sizes/l/

grim as fuck

with that bungee cord one, would having the brake mounted like that not pull those arms forward, lifting the front end and causing the cords to slip of the fork crown as they slacken?

I guess it depends on how much tension the chords are under normally (i.e. how slack the get when the fork is totally compressed).

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