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| Ask a Wrench- Saturday, July 2, 2010 - Ask a Wrench May 29, 2010 |
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Becky B from Bend, Oregon (although for all that knows Becky, she's definitely still a local at heart), asks: I'm going to get a new fork for the VooDoo FS to see if I like it better. I'm so out of the loop on forks and was REALLY hoping for some dumbed down info on a couple. I'm looking at the Fox Talas 32 or the likes of that. Something that has adjustable travel. I think the Talas has 100/120/140.
Dear Truly Crazy Redhead,
TALAS 32 is a great fork, as is the RockShox Revelation -- it would be hard to go wrong with either one. The Magura Thor might be worth a look, as well, but I don't know much about it.
TALAS comes in a couple of flavors: 9mm quick-release and 15mm QR. The 15mm makes the front end track better, and really reduces twist and 'walking' of the fork. The catch: your existing front hub won't work with it.
The Revelation comes in 9mm quick release and 20mm thru-axle. Same deal --- 20mm is much stiffer, but requires a different hub.
From a cost perspective, it's kind of a wash. The TALAS is more expensive, but weighs a bit less. The Revelation is arguably easier to work on, but unless you plan to do the work yourself, that may not be all that important...
The Revelation steps down in small increments (15 or so clicks of adjustment), so if having intermediate travel settings is important, the Revelation might be what you want. The flip side of that, is that the TALAS drops to 100 in 2 clicks -- takes way less time to get there, which might be valuable in races, etc.
Both the TALAS and the Revelation have similar tuning knobs: rebound damping on all models, some compression damping on some models. The Revelation can be locked out remotely, which the TALAS doesn't offer (yet)...
Either of these forks would work well with that bike, so it's bells-and-whistles kind of differences. I would give serious thought to going with the thru-axle model, even though it adds some cost -- you ride aggressively, and could benefit from the added stiffness.
Hope that helps a bit...
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