Revelation options

bike-a-swan

Of these three- maxle, blackbox damping and tapered steerer, which would you choose not to have? Forks with any combination of two seem to be easy enough to come buy at reasonable prices, all three together and the price goes mental. So, which would you drop?

As an aside, does anyone know why getting hold of a black rev with certain of the above combinations is so difficult?

warpcow

I asked a similar question recently. General consensus was that the Maxle is probably a bit better.

rockmonkeysc

I wouldn't have a fork without a maxle, really stiffens things up and stops the forks twisting.
Does depend on the bike though, no point having a mega stiff front end on a super light xc bike.

bike-a-swan

Ooops, I thought I'd added a third option- my big dilemma was really the tapered steerer/blackbox thing- sorry guys! Any thoughts?

getonyourbike

black box

The Northern Monkey

maxle or maxle with blackbox.

supersonic

Rev RLT has dual flow as standard mind.

getonyourbike

I'll add my poll and post together then, maxle with blackbox

Northwind

I'd forget about the taper, there's nothing wrong with standard steerers.

Blackbox is worth it I think though not essential, motion control is good enough but blackbox is just the icing on the cake.

The maxle, well... Usually, I'm a skeptic, before I got the current Rev Teams I had an older QR Revelation and then the maxle equivalent of that model and it really wasn't worth it, the QR one was more than stiff enough and a whole lot lighter. There was a difference but it wasn't a difference that made any difference

But the new one's a pretty light chassis and it's long too. I've only ridden a 140mm QR Rev with the new version and it was noticably less stiff than my own 150mm Maxle Rev- not enough to be a problem but I was pretty aware of it. The 150mm version will probably be more obvious again.

supersonic

Yes, the old lowers are the Tora ones, are stiffer.

ride_whenever

I have a maxle blackbox one on my carbon 456... couldn't be bothered with the faff of finding a bigger hoover pipe/slide hammer to seat a 1.5" crown race!!!!