Foes F-1
A vintage beauty that is a hybrid coil and air fork! Structurally a very burly well thought out work of art!
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- Parts - Suspension
- Date Posted
- Oct 30, 2018 at 0:00Oct 30, 2018
- Location
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FUKUOKA, Japan
- Riders
- Foes F-1
Photo details
- Photo Size:
- Camera
- Canon PowerShot SX710 HS
- Lens
- 4.5-135.0mm
- Shutter Speed
- 1/60
- Aperture
- 4.0
- Focal Length
- 8.2 mm
- ISO Speed
- 800
- Date
- 2018:10:30
- Time
- 15:08:38
10 Comments
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Sshredder
(Oct 30, 2018 at 10:01)
Open bath with coil is the best suspension ever made. It's the industry's obsession with weight and silly mid stroke platform that prevents manufacturers from making modern forks with this superior damping circuit.
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Ohhhh it was a treat for me to get to play with this fork.
I thought it was dual air, the right side is the damper (open oil bath, the black leg is the damper body) and you can adjust the bottom out air chamber.
Then the left side is a coil spring saturated in oil with a separate chamber to set the preload with air, very brilliant idea keeping the 2 chambers separated as that helps contain the oil around the springs from air and other contaminants. I don't know when it was last opened but look at how clear the oil is. Marzocchi had a similar design but the chambers were opened together and the oil would be black in 6 months. All in all good fun! Its now off to Germany!
I thought it was dual air, the right side is the damper (open oil bath, the black leg is the damper body) and you can adjust the bottom out air chamber.
Then the left side is a coil spring saturated in oil with a separate chamber to set the preload with air, very brilliant idea keeping the 2 chambers separated as that helps contain the oil around the springs from air and other contaminants. I don't know when it was last opened but look at how clear the oil is. Marzocchi had a similar design but the chambers were opened together and the oil would be black in 6 months. All in all good fun! Its now off to Germany!
