lockout

fredy

hello, please excuse my ignorance, but what is remote lockout? i have googled but all i can find are forks with it, not what it acctually is.

thanks.

*AL*

It a handelbar mounted lever that operates the lockout switch on the top of the fork leg.

Basically it saves you reaching down to lock your forks out.

fredy

and what does lockout do? does it reduce travel?

*AL*

fredy wrote:

and what does lockout do? does it reduce travel?

It's "locks-out" the suspension movement, basically making the forks rigid.

If you're travelling on a smooth surface where suspension isn't really needed, you can lockout the forks so all of your peddling momentum goes through the cranks, rather than a proportion being sapped by the forks.

Radioactiveman

Massively useful on road and fireroad climbs in particular on a hardtail. Allows you to climb out of the saddle like a rocket. Just a pita when you forget to unlock before a descent and your fillings get shaken out.

I prefer a fork with a lockout that has a blowoff type feature . i.e. the lock out automaticaly releases when a bump is hit, quite often the sensitivity of release can be set.

I have a pair of dt swiss xmc130 15mm on my hardtail and they have this feature, iirc some models of rockshox have a feature called motioncontrol which effectively allows the fork to be locked out to small bumps but respond to bigger hits http://www.sram.com/technology/34/tid/b ... hox/src/rt

Not sure how the fox lockouts work, if they are true lockouts or will release in response to hits.Sure someone will know