XFusion Shox turns 25 this year, meaning that the US company has been around pretty much from the very beginning, when off-road bikes became real sports machines. The jumps got higher and higher, as did the demands on the material. XFusion takes a look back at its beginnings at the end of the 90s with a cool video and shows what is possible today. Or rather: tomorrow - because we see the current XFusion athletes in the video, who are already riding with suspension forks that will only come onto the market in the near future: the XFusion Vengeance 38 and the RV1 29.
XFusion initially had its US headquarters in California; the company relocated its customer service to a branch in Reno, Nevada in 2017 - the expensive construction of a new, specialised factory in Taichung, Taiwan made this step necessary. Taichung is the epicentre of the bike industry. And speaking of the latest news: The Red Bull Rampage 2024 will feature an XFusion athlete we already know well: Tom van Steenbergen!
XFusion celebrates this on its Instagram account:
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And rightly so, because Tom recently landed a pretty tough trick, which we can witness here from the POV:
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According to the company website, the athletes currently supported by XFusion Shox are as follows:
- Tom van Steenbergen - Gravity, Freestyle
- Adolf Silva - Gravity, Freestyle
- Olly Wilkins - Gravity, Freestyle
- Andrew Taylor - Gravity, Freestyle
- Hannes Slavik- 4X,Pump track, Racing
- Charlotte Lawton Silva -Downhill racing, Freeride, Dirt Jumps
- Victor Duran - Enduro, Downhill, Dirt Jump
- Ismael Esteban - Cyclocross, Cross Country, Enduro
- Xabier Rubio - Enduro, DH
- Jonathan Santiago Sáez - Enduro, Downhill
Marc Strucken
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