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Echo Sl Forks


Mtchell

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It'd be great if a store like Tartybikes could find out from all their stocking brands on the warranty for their parts.

Maybe some sort of warranty page for each company detailing which types of components have X amount of years/months warranty, and if it's possible to get some kind of discount on crash replacement.

It's a bit unfair not letting people know the warranty times. For those that don't know, Deng frames are a full year's warranty at least back in '06 it was. I doubt it's changed though

Shame about your forks! Though, I'm not surprised that they snapped there, since the magura mounts welded on locate a lot of the stress there.

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I cant believe they have snapped in that place usually they snap at the top.

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/1271169/ (not my bike)

Yeah, but it's better if they snap on the stanchions. It's much easier to carry your bike home then. I've had forks snap in both places and carrying a bike in 3 pieces (as is the case with a broken steerer) is a real pain in the arse especially when all the pieces are connected with hydraulic cables.

If you have an Echo SL hub and a broken SL fork, an interesting optical feature can be noticed. You can observe the funbolt washer through the stanchion. The washer has Echo logos all round and since it's drilled, the Ti screw which also has an Echo logo on it is visible. It sounds daft, but that sight is much more breathtaking than herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the African plains.

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you, plenty of people are breaking them, but you can't expect competition oriented components to last long. Stick with KOXX, META, or Trialtech if weight is not a concern.

Have u ever picked up koxx forks ? They weigh NOTHING and they also do snap alot :| But yeh trialtechs are very strong :)

Adam (Y)

can anyone please find me the trials video of a guy with somthig wrong with his wrist, its like deurable wrist damage, need to find it, he has somthing wrong with is wrist, is all i know

Is it that video of TRA ? Its called 'TRA xtp' on youtube m8 :) or sumfing like that

Adam (Y)

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running disc brake so no stress from maggies just weak by the looks of it . If you had seen what caused them to snap you wouldn't believe it they just folded and broke off like dough couldo't believe it my self

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I remember me an Bess on the train to the big London ride pissing ourselves at how massivly flexy Maher forks were, even track standing leaning forwards you could feel the forks flexing and ping'ing back. They were total jokes, my DOB's were fine.

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running disc brake so no stress from maggies just weak by the looks of it . If you had seen what caused them to snap you wouldn't believe it they just folded and broke off like dough couldo't believe it my self

Well they obviously were already cracked, and probably only hanging together from the sound of it. I wouldn't bother with any other Deng forks. The Gu's will be stronger, but for a little more money you can get Trialtechs. My current trialtechs have lasted over 3 times longer than any current Deng fork, they are much stronger (Y)

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I remember me an Bess on the train to the big London ride pissing ourselves at how massivly flexy Maher forks were, even track standing leaning forwards you could feel the forks flexing and ping'ing back. They were total jokes, my DOB's were fine.

Indeed, the 26" discs are ridiculous, it's almost like being on a boat.

4 bolt mounted brakes seem ok and stiff, 20" forks are good both on disc and maggie.

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Well they obviously were already cracked, and probably only hanging together from the sound of it. I wouldn't bother with any other Deng forks. The Gu's will be stronger, but for a little more money you can get Trialtechs. My current trialtechs have lasted over 3 times longer than any current Deng fork, they are much stronger (Y)

And how much they set me back?

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Mine went last night, was doing a fairly big gap up to front. Somehow i managed to put my feet down on the other side to save my face and brake cable. Oh well back to my trusty old zoo forks until disk only trial tech forks are in stock :)

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Which are stiffer, Viz or Trialtech? Thinking replacing mine soon, they're so flexy. (Echo somethings, the 07 silver curved ones. The light ones.)

Much the same. I'd go with trialtech though, they do have a slight edge, and are so f**king solid, but not massively heavy. I'll be getting some when tarty have them back in stock.

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