 You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
whats this then?
[URL= http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y394/dansipods2/1622807_759289664090521_368819446_n_zps82dc4a29.jp g" target="_blank">
http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y394/dansipods2/1622807_759289664090521_368819446_n_zps82dc4a29.jp g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
Disk brake equipped carbon forks?
Yep, looks like a [s]gravel grinder[/s] cross bike fork to me.
Doesn't look beefy enough to be the top of a USD fork. Rigid of some sort, then.
Whatever it is, it obviously worked!
Doesn't look as beefy as most carbon road / cx fork crowns either ; )
Fat bike fork..
Carbon Catapult?
bog roll holder
Australia-specific desert fork?
If it [i]is[/i] actually an upside-down sus fork, it looks interesting.
Super light upside down xc fork, fat option, gravel option?
This is from FB. Does the bike in the pic have that fork? Looks like it could.
[img][url= http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2810/13270906133_266afb7f71.jp g" target="_blank">
Rockshox finally realising that they could be charging a load of cash for forks with no moving parts. Easy money.
Early leak of an April fools joke (not sure what it is but the ad wording is weird as is Rockshox & rigid forks)???
It's not that weird - DT & White Bros have both made rigid forks.
More that the wording is weird since it suggests something massive ("everything changes") for what looks like a normal rigid fork. That's why I wondered if it might be ironic and an April Fools thing...
Maybe RS are starting to think that suspension is a faff, too expensive and doesn't really add that much to your riding, so they're embracing rigid forks.
I doubt that Singletrack have flown out to Moab for a early April fools product launch! Plus would you bother for a ridged fork?
New leaf fork/wheel thing gadget?
Good shout Andy, seems plausible
Like a lauf? Or perhaps SRAM bought lauf?
yeah.... they are slightly over-egging it if it's [i]just[/i] a carbon rigid fork, and the upside-down ref wouldn't make any sense.
And would they also go to Moab to test a rigid fork? Dunno, but seems a bit too gnarr for that.
I am going for some sort of inverted bouncer, although the pic does just look like a carbon cross fork 😕
iolo - Member
Carbon Catapult?
POSTED 5 HOURS AGO # REPORT-POST
Every so often STW really needs a 'like' button... 🙂
TBF, it would be a bit of a surprise for Rockshox to launch a non suspension fork...
It's a revolutionary new saddle
Or just a carbon fork designed specifically for the Australian market
Does that look like an access port for an allen key or somesuch thing on the nearest leg? I'm going to go with an uspide down telescopic fork with a brand new 45.7mm oversize through axle standard......
I'm going to go with an upside down telescopic fork
Agreed. That's decided then?
Presumably an upside-down fork with a modern one-piece carbon steerer/crown would alleviate some of the stiffness issues with old inverted forks. So my money's on a short (ish) travel lightweight Inverted XC fork.
RS wouldn't release rigids - they'd be SRAM or Truvativ- branded if they were to exist.
I think the upside down fork might mean turning things on its head. Hence the everything changes bit.
Look at the background
I'm with it being a joke: Rockshox releasing a rigid fork is 'turning the world upside down' in a stupid way.
Edit:
That pic is this TINAS:
[img] 
[/img]
Presumably an upside-down fork with a modern one-piece carbon steerer/crown would alleviate some of the stiffness issues with old inverted forks.
I thought the problem was, without an arch, the stiffness of the lowers depended on the axle bracing the sliders together? Isn't that why Maverick went for a huge axle?
On the mavericks there's only really the twist direction that there is any play. In every other dimension, they are stiffer than normal forks (that's the DUC though - I haven't tried the SC32s).
There are a few other upside-down forks around.
X-Fusion - Not out quite yet:
[img] 
[/img]
Carver (which I think is available):
[img] 
[/img]
11Nine fat bike fork:
[img] 
[/img]
DVO
[img] 
[/img]
Fat bikes seem to be a driver for some of these, but I'd like to try the X-Fusions.
I reckon theyve bough the lauf fork from these guys
[img] 
[/img]
Definitely looks more like Lauf. If it is it would be interesting to see if SRAM marketing can turn around the product's success from slightly mixed reviews and quirky interest to the game changer they seem to claim.
You must be having a lauf
hmmm - now that I see the two messages together:
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
[/img]
I'm thinking that it might just be rigid.
Anyway - the next image will be along shortly (4 hours or so).
road, disk, rigid carbon is my guess.
hence the 'world of mountain biking' - they're moving to road.
wwaswas - Member
road, disk, rigid carbon is my guess.hence the 'world of mountain biking' - they're moving to road.
Yep, looks likely to me as well. Possibly with a Maxle variant as well.
maxle for sure, let me guess theyve teamed up with shimano and introducing a new 13.5mm road axle standard
Wouldn't that hinder quick wheel changes in races?
They already file off the lawyer tabs to speed things up.
Half of me wants to see them try another crazy Roubaix-specific fork.
I cant believe people sit and analyse shit like this to the nth degree.
Half of me wants to see them try another crazy Roubaix-specific fork.
[img] 
[/img]
I cant believe people sit and analyse shit like this to the nth degree.
Liar 🙂
Liar
yeah your actually correct ,I just read the entire thread
The fork on that bike in the fb pic doesn't appear to have a brace - yes I am that sad to try and look that closely at it - and the crown/steerer interface doesn't look at the right angle for the Lauf either.
My guess would be either a rigid 29er fork or a USD.
My other guess is that I need to get out more..... 😳
Doesn't look strong enough for any suspension units to be attached, get the feeling it's not going to be very exciting when we do see what it is anyway 😉
Another Rockshox marketing dept. promo fail maybe in the offing 😆
Probably LoCo
The only thing that keeps me wondering is that little capped area on the right-hand leg (not that it looks particularly removable to access suspension gubbins).
The brake hose guide is quite open - a bit like the reverb hose seat tube guides. Perhaps the hose has to move...
We need Jamie to do some comedy versions of what might be coming...
Jamie, Jamie, Jamie.....
🙂
my mate who knows someone who once crapped in the same toilet as Sam Hill said it was a new special dropper post fork butter knife thing.
You heard it here first.
I don't get the ad 'Of mountain biking upside down' - what does of mountain biking mean and no coma after biking. Doesn't make sense to me. 'Off mountain biking'???
[i]edit: I get it now, I only looked at the top part of the ad! Road disc fork then, hardly groundbreaking though.
a RAC- like upside down fork, sadly i doubt it
[img] 
[/img]
It looks way too big to be a road fork. Here's an image of another road fork for comparison (look at the steerer for scale):
[img] [/img]
[img] 
?20120719100120[/img]
Fatbike fork!
Another Rockshox marketing dept. promo fail maybe in the offing
This 😀 The wording suggests they are going to imminently revolutionize the world of something two wheeled that may or may not be MTB. Big claims given the variety of forks and sus approaches already out there...
Is it really a fail? Rockshox marketing often seems to take the piss out of hyperbolic marketing precisely when it does the same. Remember all the "this shock is so good an ordinary rider can't have it" and the constant ramming home of how "murdered out" the new Pike was? They've got something new, it's a bit different to the old thing, but not by much, and they need to advertise it.
Forget to add enough smileys etc for the irony of my post maybe, I like new stuff, however I am becoming cynical in my old age and all the 'new' developments 😉
The marketing works as it takes the mic. And gets people to react whether they understand it or not, outrage or smirk 😉
Edited as didn't read the post above properly.
It looks way too big to be a road fork.
+1, especially if the steerer in the picture is tapered...
Upside down fork: [img] 
[/img]
OK, so they turned MTB upside down with the RS-1, but I still reckon that's going to be a USD road/cross fork.
Which would be a very interesting piece of kit if it is!
If it does turn out to be a carbon fatty fork, I'll be disappointed. And bored. 🙂
ohhh tense... speculation... ohhhh
Where are these pics coming from?
Their facebook page.
shouldn't it read
"The Re-release of RS-1"
I thought their first ever fork was the RS-1
seems like they have sacked the fork naming guy and are just re-hashing old names for new forks now.
Still looks interesting.
Cyclocross suss fork?
Very interesting - the use of carbon for the uppers and crown is pretty innovative.
So I was right about that little cap 🙂
It's a FatBike USD fork then?
Cyclocross suss fork?
Are you allowed to run suss forks in CX?
Are you allowed to run suss forks in CX?
Who cares? Ditto re road. Who cares? The majority of consumers/users of bikes don't race under UCI regs, so can use what they want. A USD road/cross fork would be lovely on a tracks and trails CX bike.
If it's a fat bike fork though, well, just meh.
Suspension on a cross bike defeats the point of a cross bike.
Rough composite of what we have so far.
As mentioned, proportions look more mountain bike/fat bike than cross/road
[img] 
[/img]
so they have reinvented the marzocchi rac!
Is it possible that the two photos are of different forks? The leg profiles seem very different..........
As mentioned, proportions look more mountain bike/fat bike than cross/road
Once put together like that, I have to agree.
I couldn't put it together any other way while keeping each released photo at the same scale. Obviously the length is unknown.
Hopefully there are some guards over the lowers.
Is it possible that the two photos are of different forks? The leg profiles seem very different..........
They do don't they? The shot of the lowers is definitely from a different angle but the top half looks to be a kind of flattened aero shape and the lowers look round. Very odd.
However referencing by eye the stantion diameter to lower steerer tube diameter the stantion (actual) slider, from the picture above would be about 38mm, which bring into question weight etc.
This is starting to annoy me know
👿