god damn

sickest banshee ever created

That bike is hot as hell!

Niceeeeeee. I'm not really a giant fan of maitou forks thought...

most people wern't but if you read pinkbike's recent review of them apparently with the new dorado they have re invented themselves.

I read it, but still...

whats wrong with the dorado?

Hey if it doesn't raise the price at all I'd love it But of course....

I am no fan of manitou, but have nothign against the darado's other than they don't really suit the bike.

epicbiker maybe you prefer fox forks, but some of the manitou forks are really good - for example travis triple intrinsic or nixon super intrinsic - lightweight and quite strong fork with smooth work.

ya im not a fan of manitou but i really did like the travis

everything looks sick except for the fork. i prefer a boxxer or 40 over anything else

i have a an 07 travis single and by far the worst fork ive ever ridden negative comment me all you want but unless you've ridden one you don't know mutch

I bet that all of you Manitou haters have never even ridden this fork...

i test rode one at crankworx on an m6 and it felt really nice, but i would rather have a 40

if you think it feels nice then stop bitchin'

well, considering that a boxxer WC or 40 is about 1000 bucks cheaper, id say i can bitch all i want

It has a virtual pivot.

Dude this is nothing like fsr... its actually very similar to VPP by Santa Cruz, but the top link is horizontal as opposed to vertical.

I believe we have a misunderstanding here. I know my suspension designs. I never said the suspension on this bike was like FSR. It's similar to the Demo due to the fact that the shock is driven off of the chainstay, instead of the seatstay. Actually, in my original post I mentioned the lack of an FSR Pivot. What I meant was that this bike looks similar, and shares the chainstay driven shock that the demo has. I realize the suspension works completely differently. I thought it was a linkage driven single pivot until I read diroc's comment. When I took a closer look at the more detailed pictures on here, I saw the one that clearly shows the lower link, which makes this a virtual pivot bike. I like it.