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hi all,
I inherited some Manitou Skarebs on a frame I wanted.
They are 80mm, very light and all working well but have left stanchion damage (surface) from an off.
No leaks or other issues - they ride fine.
Don't want to price them incorrectly and upset anyone - what do you think they are worth?
Offers below £40 sound fair...?
Not sure what they're worth as they are flexy (but I like Manitous).
i borrowed a set o them once .... flexed so much under power they locked out 😀 - was cracking ! - went down a set of stairs in tht race and the lad infront was sure someone was shooting at him with a shot gun ! - was just my forks rebounding !
My mate had various models from Comp to Super. Very light and good for XC. £40 should be a good price if the damage is not too bad and they have TPC damping. He now has a new model SID and says the difference in stiffness is big however it makes a great XC race fork (it's under 1500g) if You're on a budget. AFAIK he never had any problems with them and only ever needed oil changes.
They were a great race fork not much cop on rocky trails though.
I had three sets, poor mans SID.
so flexy you will get rotor rub as the brakes won't be centered once they flex with your weight.
I might actually be interested in those if you are selling.
Drop me an email - in profile - with pics if you like.
Cheers,
Keith
My Epic originally came with a set of Skarebs on and I thought they were fine. They were replaced with Fox Floats then SID Team's and while both of those were better I didn't think the Skarebs were bad and went on to use them on a hardtail build for quite a while (until I sold it).
Half decent fork a few years ago but things have moved on,did a couple of Dyfi's with mine,they survived(as did I).Then something went bang when I hit a rock with the lock out on & ****ed them up,I'd just bought some new Reba's so swopped them over & never bothered having them repaired....