The thick lead door slams shut, a warning light flashes. It clicks quietly. Then the X-ray machine slowly slides back into its starting position. Minutes later, we are holding the image in our hands. Not that we x-rayed the entire fork test field. No, we just wanted to visualise what the inner workings of today's forks look like. And for this purpose we had a Marzocchi "All Mountain I" from the enduro fork test (BIKE 3/05) x-rayed. The first thing you notice: The tubes of the fork are crammed with adjustment options. Several pressure chambers and valves fill the cavities. Of course, it's no different for our 18 cross-country and all-round forks in this test field. They also have "SPV", "PAR" and "TST". The abundance of these different systems quickly raises the question: Do you actually need these options in practice?
You can find these suspension forks in the test:
CROSS COUNTRY:
Fox F 100 RLT / F 100 X / F 80 X, Magura Ronin 80, Manitou Black Elite 100 / Skareb Platinum 100 / Skareb Super 80, Marzocchi Marathon Race, Rock Shox Sid Team
ALLROUND:
Fox Float Talas RLC, Magura Phaon / Ronin 110, Manitou Black Super 120 / Minute 3:00, Marzocchi Marathon XC, MC-Air CC, Rock Shox Reba SL / Reba Team
