No matter which big bike rolled into our test cellar this season, there was either a Fox 40 in the head tube or a Rockshox Boxxer. The two brands dominate the market, no matter how many World Cups and world championship titles racer Loic Bruni wins with his Öhlins fork. At the moment it's a case of: Fox 40 or Rockshox Boxxer! But which one does its job better? A comparison test should shed some light on this.
For a fair comparison test, we got two identical bikes - in this case two Propain Rage CF 27.5 bikes - and also matched the shock setup and tyre pressure (front 1.7, rear 1.8 bar). We hired suspension crack Marcus Klausmann as a celebrity tester, who has a lot of experience in the World Cup and also tunes forks professionally, but has no shares in either Fox or Rockshox. The ideal testing ground: the Lac Blanc bike park with trail combinations that are angry enough to get the maximum out of the forks. But at the same time tame enough for the testers to actually concentrate on the forks instead of fighting for survival. For the fork setup, we started with the manufacturers' recommended basic settings.
Find out which of the two forks is the better one in the test. The entire article with all the test results is available as a PDF in the download area below.
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