dtew

I think Ranger92's post needs to be parsed out. "The downhill rider is always going to be faster than the uphill rider yet downhill riders need to yield to uphill traffic most places and that makes sense because getting started again after stopping mid-climb can be tough compared to stopping and getting going again on the down." This is referring to established off-road etiquette in the case of OPPOSING TRAFFIC and yielding to the uphill rider. This is not directly relevant to the situation of CONFLUENT TRAFFIC of differing speeds, but is meant to establish that the consideration is the ease with which a yielding rider can restart on loose terrain, and not-so-much-the highway etiquette of "slower-traffic yields for faster traffic". "By the same logic the e-bike rider (who can slow their pace or stop and start without issue) should be accommodating to riders who may have a hard time regaining their momentum if they had to stop to let them pass." This is now talking about CONFLUENT TRAFFIC on loose terrain, and applying the same consideration about ease of restarting. I'm parsing this out because it was pretty easy to misinterpret intent given the less-than-precise terminology used. I had started out responding to a misinterpretation... but then realized mid-way what he was actually saying.

That's because a fork has 1) two legs to distribute the force, and 2) it doesn't then double the loads with a 2:1 actuation ratio, to result in a 400% increase in load for the same style of fork bushings. Also, if your Fox/RS has short-lived internals, you can curse them out and rely on them still being there to buy overpriced parts from. If you bought a no-name novel fork that got started on Kickstarter 3 days ago, and it turns out to have the lifetime of a junebug... that's all you. Which situation between the two does this seem like to you?