Suntour??!!

scottbramwell

Right, I have been out of the MTB'in for about a year, and making a come back, have a decent amount of money to buy a new bike but since when has every manufacturer or company began to stick suntour on their bikes, now when i was last on my bike I have always disliked suntour, so unless they have become very popular since, why are they using them???

supersonic

Ever used a high end suntour like an axon?

fredblob

i see no problems with suntour they make some good quality items

The Rookie

Suntour used to be the big name brand and Shimano the cheap stuff....if you go back a ways anyway!

SR Suntour make some perfectly good kit, the same as Shimano make some horrid stuff (the cheap pressed steel rear mechs on BSO's with 'shimano quipped' logo's on the frame for example).

scottbramwell

so what your saying is that im just being silly and they are a decent manufacturer? i much prefer rock shox or fox though mmm

97th choice

It depends, they make low end stuff that sent very good. But the epicon, raidon and axon forks are pretty good.

The Rookie

So a Rockshox Dart is much better than any Suntour? Dart being pretty much the same as an XCT, a Dart2 an XCM and a Dart3 an XCR.

Suntour make perfectly good stuff to a reasonable budget they also make some pretty good stuff but nothing (yet) really top end, they also make some horrid stuff like Shimano do and some mediocre stuff like RS do.

So yes being 'silly' sounds about right, although I think I'd have used naive.

RockmonkeySC

I would take a good Suntour fork over a similarly priced bottom end Rockshox fork.
At the budget end of suspension you get a better fork for your money from Suntour or X Fusion than any of the big brands.

lbalony

My first pair of air forks was a pair of Suntour Raidons I picked up cheap. Really good fork. I would buy another pair any day. The XCR XCM stuff is all OE stuff for bike builds on a specific budget! It will be big business for them. The arock Shox Darts and XC's are the same basic rubbish too. I would not get too tied up with brand names.

stuisnew

Having had darts and raidons I can say that the radon is about a billion times better.

Agree though that when I first got into bikes suntour forks were pretty pap, but many are pretty good now.

mrmonkfinger

scottbramwell wrote:

i much prefer rock shox or fox though mmm

so why not buy a rockshox or fox then?

scottbramwell

cause I wanted another opinion as I have been away I wasn't certain whether they've changed since.

supersonic

As with RS, Manitou and even Fox, they do budget and top end forks.

The Rookie

You don't buy a fork by brand, but by model........

stubs

X Fusion seem to be doing some really nice forks we dont see them much in this country but my cousin in the States has just built his new Sanderson HT frame up with some X fusion 34mm forks and he says first ride out he kept thinking his front tyre was too soft because he couldnt feel any trail buzz.