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#1 ·
I've heard that Treks are being spec'd with this new fork from Manitou. Has anyone heard any details?
 
#1,984 ·
So when I disconnect the air hose, it always sprays out a little bit of the lube inside that leg....and the rotor is RIGHT THERE. WTF? Again, air spring like this is so asinine.
 
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#1,997 ·
If you've got oil in the air-chamber then it's service time. Air-spring is grease lubed and it's ingested some bath oil.

Replace the end-cap seal with a 10x3mm o-ring and the ingestion rate will drop to near zero.

Just lay the bike down to adjust pressure. It's the best way, keeps fork at height and minimal hassle.
 
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#26 ·
It'll be a great fork because it doesn't take much to do better than what we have.

I'm not a Trek fan boy, but big buying power has it's benefits.

This is the fork we've been waiting for, hopefully more companies will follow suit.

I'll take two please, 120mm and 140mm :)
 
#29 ·
Guy I ride with has the 29+ Manipou fork, we have been riding for over 30 years, and he claims it is the best fork he has ever had. Pretty excited to get a fat one (3 in fact). Before that we both thought the Marzocchi Ti 44 140mm 29er fork was excellent and what we used as a benchmark.
Current Manitou forks are both awesome and underrated. Funky thru-axle turns some people off, but what one fork works for everybody?
 
#30 ·
Saw two in the wild here in WI last week. They were going past me the other way. Didn't realize what I was seeing at first. Looked like they had 5 inch tires and since they were Hayes employees, thinking they were riding Mulefuts - so at least 80 wide rims and there was a lot of space around the fork.
 
#46 ·
I saw it in person at Winterbike up in Burke VT this year. Comfortably held a 2xl.
The guy riding it said it would blow through it's travel pretty easily - which is what I found with the Manitou Minute 29 fork I had a few years ago. Maybe that can be fixed with some volume adjustment some how. Looked good, and super wide.
 
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