RockShox Sektor - The New Bull Dog In The 150 mm Travel Arena
The big Taipei bike show is stirring the pot and we're starting to see new products being released like wildfire. Next up is a new trail fork from RockShox, the 150 mm travel Sektor! Have a look inside to get the scoop directly from RockShox!
Read on...Source: RockShox
The sleek new trail suspension from RockShox can only be described as a modern trail fork that transcends all. With a diverse range of options and an amazing price to performance ratio, this trail blazer can hang with it's more refined counterpart, RockShock's very own Revelation.
Revelation set the bar for all front suspension that performs in the 150 mm travel arena. To continue the RockShox promise we hard to work hard to uphold performance and low weight in such an affordable fork. The "outside the box" approach in spring and weight development really tells the story about creativity and innovation in product development.
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Pictured is the Sektor RL - Solo Air, 150 mm travel, 20 mm Maxle Lite Weight - 4.33 lb
Sektor is about choice and being able to acquire a product that performs for your trail riding needs. We start with the 9 mm QR, 15 mm thru-axle, 20 mm Maxle Lite offerings and then provide you three spring options; coil, Solo Air, and U-Turn. The fork offers affordable and exciting options.
Features
• Solo Air and Coil Sektor: 130, 140, 150 mm travel
• U-Turn Sektor: 100-140 mm or 110-150 mm travel
• Damping: Motion Control (RL), TurnKey Lockout (TK), external rebound (R)
• Forged, hollow 6061-T6 aluminum crown
• 32 mm 7075 aluminum upper tubes
• Redesigned external rebound adjuster
• 9 mm QR, 15 mm thru-axle, 20 mm Maxle Lite options available
• 1 1/8" steerer, tapered 1 1/8"- 1 1/2" steerer, 1 1/2" steerer options
How do you feel about the new Sektor? With three axle options, including the big boy 20 mm version, and 150 mm of available travel all rolled into a fork that is claimed to weigh 4.3 lbs, will the latest RockShox fork have a place on the front of your trail or AM bike? Tell us what you think below!
Visit Rockshox.com to see their entire lineup of forks and shocks
Read on...Source: RockShox
The sleek new trail suspension from RockShox can only be described as a modern trail fork that transcends all. With a diverse range of options and an amazing price to performance ratio, this trail blazer can hang with it's more refined counterpart, RockShock's very own Revelation.
Revelation set the bar for all front suspension that performs in the 150 mm travel arena. To continue the RockShox promise we hard to work hard to uphold performance and low weight in such an affordable fork. The "outside the box" approach in spring and weight development really tells the story about creativity and innovation in product development.
Sektor is about choice and being able to acquire a product that performs for your trail riding needs. We start with the 9 mm QR, 15 mm thru-axle, 20 mm Maxle Lite offerings and then provide you three spring options; coil, Solo Air, and U-Turn. The fork offers affordable and exciting options.
• Solo Air and Coil Sektor: 130, 140, 150 mm travel
• U-Turn Sektor: 100-140 mm or 110-150 mm travel
• Damping: Motion Control (RL), TurnKey Lockout (TK), external rebound (R)
• Forged, hollow 6061-T6 aluminum crown
• 32 mm 7075 aluminum upper tubes
• Redesigned external rebound adjuster
• 9 mm QR, 15 mm thru-axle, 20 mm Maxle Lite options available
• 1 1/8" steerer, tapered 1 1/8"- 1 1/2" steerer, 1 1/2" steerer options
How do you feel about the new Sektor? With three axle options, including the big boy 20 mm version, and 150 mm of available travel all rolled into a fork that is claimed to weigh 4.3 lbs, will the latest RockShox fork have a place on the front of your trail or AM bike? Tell us what you think below!
Visit Rockshox.com to see their entire lineup of forks and shocks
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I love the look, and the spec does seem like exactly what i need, but then so does the Revelation, but its too pricey for me, so how much is this fork?
And i do agree, the RS line up is already confusing enough....
Dart, Tora, Reba, Recon, SID, Revelation, Pike, Domain, Argyle, Lyrik, Totem, Boxxer and now Sektor?
Which one's for what?
Sektor RL Solo Air QR 140mm: $455
Sektor RL Solo Air 20mm/15mm 150mm: $471
Sektor RL U-Turn Coil QR 100-140mm: $368
Sektor RL U-Turn Coil 20mm/15mm 110-150mm: $417
Also the full lineup is actually SID, Reba, Revelation, Recon, Recon Gold, Recon Silver, Sektor, Tora TK, Tora Trail, Tora XC, Dart, Domain, Argyle, Lyrik, Totem, Boxxer, Pike.
And cheers for proving my point even better, the RS line up is SO confusing!
and why does no one produce a single piece carbon fiber steerer+crown+uppers with coating. 1.125" - 1.5" allow for pretty smooth transition. all we getis F lowers which is kinda retarded considering he price raise and nearly no weight loss.
It looks nice, but it all depends on the cost.
Since the price of Pikes went through the roof (and Revs went seemingly into orbit) they've priced out a lot of people.
£400 or less for the solo airs and we're there. More than that and it raises the awkward question of why you wouldn't grab a second hand set of Pikes or Revs, send them to TF tuned and get a better set of forks for less money.
...sorta like the Hope Pro II of forks.
The bigger or more expensive problem (which I didn't thinkabout until you reminded me of hub spacing) is that you need a longer through-axle. I just wonder if it is more expensive to produce two different axles as it is to make two crowns and two lowers - I'm thinking axle is cheaper. But with my converter axle, you could run any brand 20mm fork you wanted.
I bet Problem Solvers have the CNC machines warming up as we speak!
more options, lower prices.
seen
And if this is really a cheaper version of a revelation, SICK! maybe this could be the answer for all of the people that think domains are too much fork for them. I am excited if it really is a lower end lower price, reasonable performance fork. I think its about time a company decides to go with the customer, to improve the industry, not against the customer to take advantage of the rediculous monopoly that all companies have over us consumers. Its like the oil crisis, and it is not fair. Thats right mtn bike industry f*ck you.
RANT OVER!
(Sorry some1 jacked my skis today, this is a good place to vent.)
"With a diverse range of options and an amazing price to performance ratio, this trail blazer can hang with it's more refined counterpart, RockShock's very own Revelation."
this statement makes it pretty obvious its a cheaper version of the revelation, no need to PMS. well its pinkbike, what can i expect?
i am delightedly awaiting your response, since i know it will be funny to read
What I am trying to say is this needs to be substantially cheaper. Like these kids said,
"So RS has a Pike, Revelation and a Lyrik which are all about in the same travel range.. instead of re-purposing the Pike as their cheap trail bike fork they are adding another fork to the lineup? Seems kinda dumb to me.. but at least it looks cool Wink"
and... "Love the look, but wheres the price, i'm sorry but specs don't mean d1ck without a price! It could have every single feature under the sun, but if its £1500 i can't afford it!
I love the look, and the spec does seem like exactly what i need, but then so does the Revelation, but its too pricey for me, so how much is this fork?
And i do agree, the RS line up is already confusing enough....
Dart, Tora, Reba, Recon, SID, Revelation, Pike, Domain, Argyle, Lyrik, Totem, Boxxer and now Sektor?
Which one's for what?"
there are others but i am done quoting.
Oh, so i found my skis. Somebody took them overnight, (it could have somebody that wanted to help me or something,) but they put them back into a place that i looked! Not the place where i put them however, but still, why would they take them and then give them back, WTF?? It was the weirdest, luckiest shit thats ever happened to me i think.
and when does it come out?
yes how much thank you please.
+ im confused, are pikes being fazed out? if not, im confused... 130/140/150mm fork we have here, yes RS already make 3 or 4 fork that already do that...
Sektor RL Solo Air QR 140mm: $455
Sektor RL Solo Air 20mm/15mm 150mm: $471
Sektor RL U-Turn Coil QR 100-140mm: $368
Sektor RL U-Turn Coil 20mm/15mm 110-150mm: $417
That may not cover all the models, but that's all the info I have right now.