Which fork for my new bird zero

the big bitch

As title says which fork to go for ???
Rock shox pike RC or rock shox revelation RCT3, £50 difference.

cooldad

Probably the Pike, I'd have a chat with Ben about your riding and trust his opinion.

The Rookie

Depends on your riding, if you don't need the extra rigidity and big hit stiffness of the Pike then the Rev is usefully lighter.

poah

get the pike, damper is better and lets be honest looks better.

Thewaylander

I thought the charger damper was in pretty much the entire rockshox range now?

codfather

What don't you like abut your current fork that you want to change?

Chunkers1980

Guessing it's a new bike

the big bitch

Yeah new bike
I can either have the rock shox Revelation RCT3 or pay extra £50 and have the pike RC

codfather

How do you know the current forks are inadequate? Or do you just want to buy new forks regardless?

codfather

Forgive me, I've only just cottoned on to what you meant by new bike. I thought you meant you had just received it and wanted to swap forks. As above, depends on your riding, Revs are nice and light, but lack a certain stiffness for harder riding. Opposite for the Pikes. Pikes may seem like good value at that price, but if you don't ride hard enough to get the most out of them, they won't necessarily be any better than the Revelations.

the big bitch

Only just getting back on a bike after 4 years away so my riding won't be hard. So from what I can take from your replies is that the Revs will be fine.

rockmonkeysc

The weight difference is quite small. I would go with the Pike for it's extra stiffness.

poah

pike on a bird

the big bitch

Poah, is that your bird???

I have ordered the zero AM XT 11 with the pike forks on.

poah

no its my bro in laws bird AM that I built up for him. It has M8000 XT gear and brakes.


I've got a dartmoor hornet with a pike

Clockworkmark31

Great builds POAH, but why have you not cut the brake lines?

Thewaylander

I say pike like monkey, its not really much heavier at all. and will do far more in the long run if you ever decide to push it hard.

The Rookie

Thewaylander wrote:

I thought the charger damper was in pretty much the entire rockshox range now?

Not according to RS
https://www.sram.com/rockshox/products/revelation-rct3

poah

Clockworkmark31 wrote:

Great builds POAH, but why have you not cut the brake lines?

bro in law hasn't decided on bar width yet so no point cutting them yet.

codfather

Having looked up the numbers on both, I'm changing my vote to Pike. £50 and 80 grams is a very small price to pay for the extra stiffness.

Thewaylander

And an upgraded damper if Rookie's link is right (Which im guessing it is)

definitely the pike! no reason not too!

the big bitch

Looks like I made the right decision with the pike forks. Cheers fellas
Nice bikes Poah.