As per the title, at Merlin cycles. Seems crazy cheap. It is a 2021 fork but that hasn't stopped me ordering one! Looks perfect for a Ragley Marley 290 frame for a belter of a bargain hardcore hardtail. People seem to be super impressed with how good the basic GRIP damper is.
John
When they say it's 'tuned for e-mtb', does that mean you'd have to do something internally to reverse that?
From Fox:
e-MTB Tuned
FOX’s e-MTB Tuned forks feature the same chassis as our standard forks except with a custom damper and air spring tune for the slightly different ways in which e-MTBs are ridden as compared to standard MTBs. For example, e-MTBs allow riders to conquer technical rolling terrain with greater ease than is possible on a standard MTB. In order to utilize the assistance provided by the bike in this type of riding the rider must keep pedaling. It’s difficult to maintain traction while pedaling over rough terrain. Therefore, our e-MTB Tuned forks feature a custom compression tune that helps keep the wheels glued to the ground at all times, maintaining traction and forward momentum, and a more progressive air spring tune to make sure that even though the initial stroke is softer the end stroke ramps up to provide the right amount of support for those bigger hits. These may seem like subtle differences but optimizing to even the smallest degree is a trait we’ve learned the importance of over our many years of winning races – sometimes by the smallest of margins.
Ohh that is tempting, the Z2's on my other bike have been great and some 34's would shed a lot of weight over the 35's on the singlespeed.
When they say it’s ‘tuned for e-mtb’, does that mean you’d have to do something internally to reverse that?
From the fox blurb:
e-MTB Tuned<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #696969; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #000000;" />FOX’s e-MTB Tuned forks feature the same chassis as our standard forks except with a custom damper and air spring tune for the slightly different ways in which e-MTBs are ridden as compared to standard MTBs. For example, e-MTBs allow riders to conquer technical rolling terrain with greater ease than is possible on a standard MTB. In order to utilize the assistance provided by the bike in this type of riding the rider must keep pedaling. It’s difficult to maintain traction while pedaling over rough terrain. Therefore, our e-MTB Tuned forks feature a custom compression tune that helps keep the wheels glued to the ground at all times, maintaining traction and forward momentum, and a more progressive air spring tune to make sure that even though the initial stroke is softer the end stroke ramps up to provide the right amount of support for those bigger hits. These may seem like subtle differences but optimizing to even the smallest degree is a trait we’ve learned the importance of over our many years of winning races – sometimes by the smallest of margins.
Dunno how tempting that is, if I had one criticism of the Z2 it's that it's already too progressive. I can get full travel in the workshop with the air let out, but there's no way it'll go past about 75% once pressurized. Seems to be a trait of most air forks/shocks the spring rate works if you're an athlete that looks like Tom Pidcock, but more air makes them more progressive.
Thanks. How do non-eeb riders get over rolling technical terrain without pedalling? This just sounds like a tune for any mountain bike that occasionally goes up as well as down.
I think the description bit is wrong. My set turned up today and they have no mention of e-tuned anywhere, just standard 34 rhythm forks. Also they clearly take more than a 2.4 tyre! I've stuck a 2.6 in in it and loads of space. Only thing I would say is they come up quite heavy. 2100g which was more than I expected.
