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gossa:
Seeing 20mm bolt through forks now from S&M, Supercross etc.

Anyone running them? I say trend bollox. Can't see how it would be any stiffer than a regular set up (stiffness is the claim). Can see a bit of weight saving with the right hub/axle but no enough to warrant the cost to change it all out.

Bolt thru back ends are also a waste of time until frame manufacturers wake up and start speccing oversized BB shells like the BB386 which would provide a stiffer BB junction.

Just my 2p on current product 'developments'...

not johndub71:
I can't see it on a rigid fork unless the fork is lighter and considerable weaker without it. If it was a suspension fork then the stiffness at the hub would certainly help. Sometimes manufacturers like to re engineer the wheel for no reason.

gossa:
It made a difference in MTB forks as they did slop about a bit but a rigid chromo fork can't benefit from being stiffened up. Even if it improved the tracking by 5%, you wouldn't be able to feel that.

Still races are won by such marginal gains, maybe that 5% would be the 100th of a second in a tmetrial?

Not convinced, anyone riding these?

Devilock:

Manufacturers need to convince customers to buy new products.

Dingobmxer:
I had Odyssey Xtro forks and hub set up on my cruiser and it was noticably stiffer especially on the gate


Dingo

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