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[Omega Man]

Omega Man, on 10 February 2012 - 12:22 , said:

No. The project was abandoned last year before the Syndicate signed for them. Aaron Gwin and Gee Atherton tested the forks last year.

Interestingly. The inverted forks Minnaar used on his Honda were Showa forks. Showa is owned by Honda as is Kayaba (some of the Honda DH bikes raced in Japan had forks with Kayaba stickers on them.)

Also very interestingly, Ohlins is largely owned by Yamaha and despite this the Honda Moto GP team run Ohlins. You'd expect them to run Showa.

I do find it strange that inverted forks don't seem to work in a dh scenario. Inverted forks have been standard issue in MX since the mid nineties and the triple clamp arrangement used on DH bikes is very similar to that found on an MX bike. Having said all that the forks on my MX bike are MUCH more robust than on my DH bike and while downhillers like to think of DH as gravity fueled moto the two sports are MILES apart in terms of speeds, weights and suspension action and requirements.

[rock]

thanks omega man, sorry i didn't bother reading all that text in that first post.....so its not going to hit the shelves, great.

I still think dhers should be limited to 6" travel and single crown forks.....kay bye.

[Omega Man]

rock, on 10 February 2012 - 12:47 , said:

I still think dhers should be limited to 6" travel and single crown forks.....kay bye.

I have that on my Mbuzi.

[Capricorn]

for all those remembering just how old his upside down fork business is, something from pinkbike about marzo's USD RAC 4" fork with carbon 'upppers' from 11 years ago!