2010 Boxxer - Initial Beat Down
Last month I received my new 2010 Boxxer from Dunbar and threw it straight onto the front of my Devinci Wilson 4! I decided I needed to test it out to see what all the hype was about, so me and Rob headed up to Seymour for a run on what I think is one of the gnarliest, roughest tracks on the shore, Neds! (when your fully pinned).
For those of you that don’t know much about Neds, this track is comparable to the World Cup track in Fort William Scotland in that there are loose boulders scattered over the trail with big compression holes that like to catch your wheels and throw you into the massive roots and rocks scattered through out the trail.
As we get to the top of the trail head, Rob looks over at me and takes off pinned! The first section has gnarly steps made of roots and rocks that you double up once you begin to pick your speed up, I instantly began to feel the buttery feeling in the fork. I was already blowing through the travel of the fork slamming it into massive loose rocks only to realize that I was still in total control of the bike. 20 seconds down the trail and I am blown away at what a different level these forks are on, compared to so many others that I have ridden. After about a minute down the trail I had to stop and tell Rob “This is F$%#ing ridiculous! I can’t feel a thing with these forks and they are tracking everywhere I want them to!” I took off again and began to feel an amazing amount of confidence in the fork, so I decided to test these bad boys out a little. I decided to double up this root section that I had done a couple of times before. I go for it and just as I’m in the air I think to myself UH OH! There, right where my front wheel needed to go was a loose boulder the size of my chest on the landing, pointing right at me. I was nose heavy into it already, the only thing I could do was lean back on the bike and hope for the best. Goosh! was all I remember and then of a sudden I went from "oh no!", to "That was awesome!" The fork soaked it up like it was just a little baby head! My ass was saved from annihilation by 8 inches of RockShox genius! And no, I'm not sponsored by SRAM, I'm saying that because they are amazing!
Since that first day, I have been relentlessly hammering these for over a month and have found NO weaknesses!
This fork really brings suspension forks to a whole new level of riding capabilities right out of the box. My rating on this fork on a level of crap to sick, it rates very Sick!
By Andrew Mitchell - 2008 Canadian National DH Champion
Video produced by:Kaizen Visuals
www.dunbarcycles.com
Thanks to:
Devinci, Sombrio,Oakley, e13, Straightline, Chromag, Kali, Dunbar!
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Should be rather called a Boxxer 2010 Commercial
Everyone should at first read some threads in internet where people are complaing about the oil volumes, low lubrication, clicking sound.
No doubt it is a perfect fork and most probably really it is a level higher than any other fork when speaking about the technologies used in it but I think everyone who is buying a new fork for that much money don´t want to waste his money for something what is soooo young and can have so much issues which will occur in the future.
We all do remember the issues with Totem and Lyric forks. they came out and everyone was astonished " oh boy what a fork, what a performance" and then came it. So much problems with almost all of them.
I also wanted the new boxxer. wanted to change it for my Fox 40 but finally I decided to wait few months. The price will go lower for sure after few months and first of all there will be more infos about how the forks perform for a longer period of time...
also, it seems like as more and more manufacturers move production overseas, the more recalls and issues we are seeing. fox seems to be the only company not experiencing major issues, other than the 'modified' 29'er thing a few months ago.
too bad their shocks are pricey as hell.
and the 2010 boxxer, as sweet a fork as it is, does have some issues. i know guys who were the first in seattle to get both the team and the world cup, and w/ the exception of one guy, they all had issues out of the box.
Also the whole selling point of the older marzocchis, or at least what their reputation was built on, was the fact that they just lasted and lasted and rarely broke, but the 08 MZ's reliability has been utterly shocking, and they have cut the weight down a lot which most likely means that they just aren't built as burly as they used to be.
Agreed, smooth trannies don't show a lot other than your ability to whip? Why didn't you rig up a fork cam to show how it moves through its travel?..
Acadian... please do up a review! I love your work!
Another thing! I would love to see PB approve a review that has some cons in it... why is every product "SICK"? If something's labeled as a review it should actually review the product... There's been a lot of this junk lately.
Companies are manipulating us very much with marketing stratergies. Do you really belive that top riders are using air forks instead of coil ones?! Do you think for a top rider an air fork will perform as good as a coil one?! Some years ago they tried air shocks (and are still trying) but they gave up because they don't perform as well (and there was no way to camuflage it to have the same look as a coil shock). But with forks it's easy to make a Team look like a World Cup. Air forks have a goos market place because of the weight freaks, that prefer light weight to top performance. And think, wich fork requires more maintainance? Air... More money to the company in maintainance parts...
the beginning and ending stroke adjustment feature is awesome though. btw, ncie riding andrew. good footage of what seems a sick trail.
So we got to buy a WC because that's the fork from Rock Shox that works properly? I think it's an insult for their customers. It's the world upside down; we need a Race and Team that perform and don't have a fifty-fifty chance of working like supposed. We all probably think we are world cup racers, but hey, guess what, we're not. Back in the days i'd used to be stoked on getting a Race... Now I know it's got to be crap because RS sends the message that it is
The advertisement/review says it's great. Well it would be a real ripoff if it would'nt be for that amount of money. I'd say RS did an awsome job if the Race smoked the high end forks of the competition. But they don't. They look great and probably are stuffed with a lot of gimmicks, at the end of the day they dive like a submarine...an '02 Jr. T did two.
RS, please stop putting all the effort in a WC and take it's outers, put a lot of crap in it and selling it as the Race and Team just for having forks for the whole range of the market.
Then you better be like Manitou: 'if you are not able to spend a zillion dollars on the Dorado, there is nothing to see here'
Am I being critical? Yes for sure... Take a look at the prices, you'd better be
This review wreaks of marketing hype to me - just watch the 1st video, the forks don't look like they're helping much at all...!?