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Inside the new Fox 38 - Tuesday Tune 32
The 38 is Fox's first all-new fork platform in nearly a decade, and it comes with a raft of new features. Take a look inside at what makes it tick as we offer up our opinion on the new tech.
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I don't think that anyone (except maybe at Rampage or something) used the absolute upper reaches of the full range on the Grip2 damper (whereas a few did on the RC2) - to get the curves shown there, you have to have both LSC and HSC pretty well fully closed, which is a very harsh ride in terms of the LSC being really hugely overkill. That then begs the question why the Gen 1 damper was able to be set so firm to begin with. Running the HSC fully closed with LSC fully open is actually a pretty comfortable ride on that just because there is so little damping even at high speeds. Not the best for stability and control in my opinion, but you can certainly ride a fork with no compression damping - numerous forks over the years have not even had a compression damper at all. Not optimal, but certainly not unrideable.