@bakewell: Then it will actually be a "downhill" bike

 Think most people just don't have a bike it fits and are picking on it. Hopefully however wins it has the bike to utilize it, have heard good things about these from friends

 Yes, it's the Rockshox/Fox thing. Another example: despite the fact we only moved away from coil for weight reasons (when bikes were much heavier) and we've spent years working out how to get a air spring to work like coil spring for the first two thirds of its travel. Most MTB riders are like "air good, coil bad".

 I think it's because x fusion is kind of like sr suntour in that they have a lot of low end components that are usually spec'd on cheaper bikes, and as a result, a lot of people disregard the higher-end options.

 @danielfloyd: Magura MT sport, Rockshox Judy, Shimano alivia, CST tyres (psst thier Maxxis). I could do this all day . There are loads of "cheap" products from the major brands. So MTB riders have a silly perspective don't they.

 @HardtailHerold: coil good!!!

 Its 34mm stanchions, super nice axles, damper has loads of adjustment from super springy to super slow and cushiony, and most of their models give you 40mm of travel adjustment internally by adjusting the air spring spacers. If you've ridden one on a DJ you know how awesome these forks are and I would say on par with the big names as a DJ fork for way less. If you aren't part of the crowd who only wants fox/rockshox toys the only main holdup is lack of service parts/ representatives in the US. You can still get parts but at home work is also difficult on these.

 @MissedTheBoost: I've got an X Fusion Revel, and it's pretty great. It's very heavily modifiable, rides well, and uses mostly common tools for the service. The biggest downfall is finding parts - last time I had the fork serviced, I got an extra two complete rebuild kits, so I'm pretty much covered for life, but if I hadn't had that opportunity this beast would have been dead in the water.

 ive got a friend with this in his dj, it works great, i think its just cause it says x fusion on it

 @MissedTheBoost: How does it compare to Manitou Circus expert and pro? The slant is closer in price to Manitou's forks than to RS/FOX. I haven't got to try it but I've tried the others.

 Had one on my Scott Voltage DJ bike,they're a good burly chassis but the damper resembles one of those sealed struts that assist the tailgate on a car....i found this out when mine disintegrated after 6 mnths!...upgraded to fox 36's and never looked back

 @ozhuck2flat: Sorry I nerver saw this reply. I actually sold my manitou circus expert for an x-fusion. Its night and day to me. I don't know about the pro though. I would put the slant in the same category of performance as a pike DJ. Its a bit heavier but i defintely like that. I havent had any reliability issues or anything

 @MissedTheBoost: Better late than never haha. Thanks. Compared to the pike, I find the manitou circus heavier, less smooth through the travel (especially at initial stroke) and more harshly damped, being less precise to get the damping right for the pump track or jumps. But I don't find it to be twice as good, only marginally better and not worth twice or 3 time the price. I didn't find it significantly less stiff. Imo I'd definately prefer the pike, but the circus expert is great for a cheap fork.
What did you find was night and day different?

 @ozhuck2flat: for the same or similar price I think the x-fusion beats out the manitou all day. The damping was the primary difference but I don’t think it was all the fault of the manitou damper. The combo air/coil spring just was very difficult to tune I would either end up with a brick that only gave way to save my ass on a bad hit, or was blown through on takeoff. The x fusion just had a crazy wide range of damping tune. I hopped on my friends bike who weighs 40lb less than me, add some compression and it was a smooth ~50% of the travel on takeoff and maybe 70% on landing. Nice progressive rate of travel use too never feels blown through and keeps support.
I would still say the pile is marginally better but not 2x as the price would suggest

 @MissedTheBoost: Sounds really good and worth it in North America and that you have more choice there. Here, the Slant isn't sold aftermarket new and the Pike is $1300 AUD. There are occasionally 2nd hand ones floating around.
But the circus was $450 AUD recently. Definately good for the price.
Thanks for your opinion!

 @ozhuck2flat: honestly I don’t think you can buy it aftermarket here either, I got mine as a new takeoff of a complete polygon. Put it on my airborne skyhawk
But damn the pike is expensive!

 @MissedTheBoost: Good to see you guys are keeping this conversation alive here. What kind of jumps are you riding that you want to use that much of your travel? I don't want to feel any noticable suspension travel on a dj but I also prefer steep jumps. From my perspective the fork should really only cut down on vibration and save your ass if you overshoot. Unfortunately, air springs generally don't have great mid stroke support so if you run them soft enough to use any travel it feels divey to me. In theory the Circus expert should be a better fork for dj with the coil/air combo, EXT does a hybrid air/coil in it's forks and Avalanche Suspension does aftermarket kits to do the same to most forks. I have ridden through the pump track on a couple of my friends bikes with Pikes but they are set up stiff enough that I honestly can't tell the difference between them and my Circus expert. In my personal opinion the only real benefit of the Pike is the weight. It's probably stiffer but I don't really care how stiff a fork is. Sorry for the long rant, just came here to nerd out.

 maybe you increase your chance of winning that way

 With all the adjustments and the amount of travel, it isn't really a DJ fork isn't it? Seems like a mid-travel mountainbike fork to me.

edit: If you click the link after "learn more" (which directs you to the X-Fusion website) it says it is a trail/all-mountain fork. So if you think that relates to the riding you do, then it might be a fork for you.

 @vinay: Yeah but in a 26inch size, so probably not many people left in that category. Not many commenters at least...

 @Jmac888:I don't know, my hardtail (which I ride primarily) runs 26" wheels and runs a 120mm travel fork. I've also got a 26" wheeled full suspension bike (Cannondale Prophet, 140mm rear travel) for which such a fork would work too. I don't have a mountainbike with bigger wheels. Surely there must be more out there like that.

 @Jmac888: there might still be people with 26" hardtails, like me, but it also needs to be that combination of 26" and tapered head tube...

 @Mac1987: Hardtail or full suspension doesn't matter really or this amount of suspension travel. The tapered (or straight onepointfive) standard arrived well during the time that 29" was weird so there must be a good few of them around. But even before that, Cannondale bikes came with their big Headshok headtubes (originally for the Headshok forks where the internals were integrated inside the steerer tube) so this one should fit nearly all Cannondale bikes, provided they accept this amount of suspension travel (or axle to crown). Considering you can adjust suspension travel on this one, you could fit it in a Cannondale Rush, Prophet SL, Prophet and Prophet MX. There sure must be a good few of them around.

 Don’t know - just ask her.

When refering to the fork however, afaik the Slant HLR comes with 160mm of travel and can be internally adjusted in 20mm increments down to 100.

 @FuzzyL: it can also be adjusted externally in 5mm increments by wrapping zip ties around the stanchions.

 That's what she said.

 Chance of whoever wins it having a 26" bike?...

 I hope that it never does die.

 Yes! I have still 26" Commencal Meta from 2008 in my garage On the other hand the original RS Reba works still fine.

 @kauris: That's good your fork still works! I need to win this one so I can give my brother back his clapped out Lyric I've been long term borrowing for my DJ.

 I won't enter, but my bike has 26" wheels front and rear.

 @mountainsofsussex: Just tried to work on my 2004 SID damper yesterday...a new fork would be welcome.

 @noapathy: it won't fit

 @browner: That's what she said.

 @mountainsofsussex: Pretty high chance of 26ers out there for people still running their DJs (e.g. new NS frames) or building up something for their 8-10 yos...

 For anything other than a jump bike, it's dead.

 @nrloewen: Exactly what I would use this for.. building up a new bike for the kid, Would love it.

 @nrloewen: given that the description didn't say what wheel size it is, I was just imagining lots of people clicking enter without checking. Took the comments section to confirm it won't fit my or my daughter's bike, so for once, I didn't click enter straight away

 Just found out my 26" bike is too old for this (straight steerer....)

 @Mac1987: Is there no external headset that could make this work? Straight steerers are getting rare these days indeed.

 @vinay: maybe. I'll look into it if I win. Considering the specific specs of the fork, I might actually have a shot this time

 @Mac1987: i was able to put a cup in a Giant dj and run a tapered 26.

 @Mac1987: Good luck. I'm happy with the 26" forks I currently have and am not looking for a replacement, so I'm no competition. Just good to keep in mind that, despite what Pinkbike claims, this isn't a DJ specific fork so it may not be willing to take the amount of abuse that you'd expect from a proper one.

 @vinay: Thanks! My current fork is a 32mm legged one, so it'll be fine.

 @Mac1987: Yeah, but it isn't just the outer diameter that matters. A decade ago or so Boxxers also came with 32mm stanchions and they didn't break. I'm surprised to see these days that the lowers no longer extend below the axle. I'm running Magura Wotan, Thor and TS8 forks and they all do extend that low. So if there isn't that much room inside the lowers when the fork bottoms out, you can't have such long stanchions. And if you don't have long stanchions, then you can't have a large bushing distance when the fork is extended. So that's my thinking, not sure whether it is correct. DJ forks like the Manitou Circus do extend below the axle so I'd expect a larger bushing distance. But yeah, that's just my thinking looking at these forks from the outside, not sure whether it is actually true.

 @vinay: never judge a fork by whether it extends below the axle. My grandfather always said.

 @browner: That's a good. I'm one of those weirdos who only looks below the axle. I'll try to focus on other qualities from now on.

 Lmao, I was thinking the same thing..

 My thoughts as well.

 With a tapered steerer...

 @mjcutri: hmmm...I hadn't realized the steer tube taper....

Do you think they sent it to PB for a review, and PB had a better idea if they wanted positive(ish) publicity...

 Be thankful you came here to view the library pic

 @DmoorDevil: ...you lost me

 @takeiteasyridehard: I replied to custard member. Try to keep up x

 They refused it