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MTB forks from japan
Some new cool lightweight MTB forks.
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- Date Posted
- Oct 10, 2008 at 9:03Oct 10, 2008
- Category
- All Mountain/Enduro/DH
- Location
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Tokyo, Japan
116 Comments
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jono21
(Oct 10, 2008 at 12:02)
vod , all the way.
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I would have a hard time fully trusting those forks. Not that they are poorly made. Its just that they drop from 200 to o with no effort. Chances are the forks would never drop out mid ride, but the thought of it makes me weary, and uneasy.
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I'm stationed in Japan, you see alot of these forks matched with Japanese made DH bikes. I haven't got to ride one yet but they are cheaper to buy here than than the Fox 40 and Boxxer
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I don;t think that they would be that bad cause they have been used in the UCI WC by the MSC-Maxxis team back in 2006. see for your self www.covicracing.com/images/180sf_07.jpg (THE BLUE WORDS AT THE TOP)
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they look relly nice but untill they aren't tested on tugher land and untill they don't work out the bugs becus theyr bownd to have some bugs they won't be out in some time but when they do who knows they just might be the next big thing after fox and all the big names it's just a matter of time
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wtf they are asking too much money for a brand that open like yesterday f*ck off... i looked at the price of the inverted one... its costing 1800€ and i dont even know if they are good or not i prefer to give 2000€ for a boxxer world cup and not giving 1800€ for a suspension did i dont even know if they are good or not... and ppl were talking about marzocchi is beying made in asia yes its true but suspensions before 2007 were made in italy...
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Well, i've heard repeated stories of maz forks with 160-200 travel gettihng stuck and considering how unreliable forks can be these just look like a huge risk, i love the idear and hope they do well but just imagin a failure in that fork with would lead to full compression with out rebound and returned resistance coming down a super sketch section at say fort bill or whisler,
but hey if these forks work well and a cheaper than what already on the market fuck the other companies amd gettin some
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Ya im not saying they are but they look kinda cheap like made out of plastic, and it looked a little to easy to bring the suspension up and down like if the locking device is that easy to turn then the mechanism that holds the fork internally in place is probably pretty skimpy and if u smashed down onto it to hard would just brake, and like some have said its only light dh riding they show that any little kid could do... they need to put it through some tougher stuff. Im not saying im right about all this stuff and not saying its not a good quality fork but until most stores actually carry it and can be bought nationally anywhere then i would never trust it but thats me.
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Dude if the other brands such as Kowa, Kayaba, Showa, Tech-in put their products on the global market as Shimano did, they will rise the bar so high, so that might kill at least one of the big names, simply because they will be under the bar. Remember that Kowa and Kayaba are big names in the motorsports, with a huge technology development history. Do you ever heard of Japanese brand making unreliable products, with poor quality ? And for the guys above. Do you make difference between China and Japan. Are you realy that poor educated ?
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I never said anything about it being made in China or Japan that wasn't my point and not even part of it. Then why don't they put them on the global market then if there so great huh?
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they do l;ook kinda nice but the inverted has no guards over the stanstions and that travel madjust thing looks like it would brake iof there a new company there gonna have a few bugs like that to work out....
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Producing something to the global market takes huge effort. It takes too much. They have distributors network (see here kowa-ss.co.jp/distributor.html) , but still its not that wide as Shimano`s. Once i asked for a price for the GF fork and the price was twice over the Fox 40`s.
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ya didnt kowa start with moto sus. and now theyre moving into this? they looked fairly strong except for the inverted one that had no protectors for the stancions...
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i think so and yea the no stantion guard thing is kind gay all it really take is a rock or a root ona trail to scratch the fuck outa a inverted forks stantions
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ok i was commenting based on the video i figured that the fork's on theyre website would be tha same as those in the video
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look sick, love the 0-200 feature, but they have small stantions, need bigger ones like on most forks now like the boxxers and fox 40s
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Do u know what ure talking about ? These have 40mm stanctions just like monster Ts and fox 40s. And the forks comes with stanction guards.
i want one 
- - 1
just a set o boxxers with u-turn technology ....borin !!!!!! as for usd forks manitou got that covered
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Japan hosted Winter Olympics in Sapporo in '72 and again in Nagano in '98. The Northwest coast of Japan and Hokkaido regularly get more snowfall than any other inhabited place on earth. Generally though, many Japanese find it cheaper to travel to places like Whistler and ski for a week than to travel to a resort in Japan and ski for the same duration.