2009 Rock Shox World Cup Boxxers

[lindsay]

Discuss the article here.

[red_dog]

A great review, not too many words like most.
Mine are on order - cant wait till late Feb!

[mighty.andy]

woo, sounds like they go alright, have SRAM always manufactured boxxers?
now i have to save up, to buy some.
anyone know what they would be retailed as?

[udi]

Price?
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[j5ive]

Subject to change, but as of yesterday- 1200, 1900, 2600.

I too have them ordered. Yes, very fickle.

[SLEDGER]

There was a write up about the new 2010 boxxer world cup in January issue of Revolutions.

I like the new high & low speed compression adjustment & beginning & end stock rebound control. Also good to see the appendix of the boxxer finally removed as the floodgate function as it did nothing for me.

Hopefully there will be less servicing costs with the new forks as I replace seals about three times a year at present with my teams.

[jda]

I hope we can retrofit the new Ti maxle into the 06 - 08 forks. Mine is so flogged out right now!

"I think this is a solid move away from the previous models motion control unit with low speed compression with a floodgate. The floodgate simply increased the force required to bypass the low speed compression allowing the high speed circuit to kick in. This is a good idea in principle but it didn’t transfer to the trail. For downhill you don’t want too much low speed compression as you want the fork to track really well over the small bumps. So out on the race track most riders ran little to no compression and floodgate. "

I don't really agree with this either, I think the reason most riders ran little to no compression and floodgate was because they had no clue on how the relaitionship worked. I specificaly upgraded my race to team so I could use the floodgate and the difference was night and day for me.

[Raw Toast Man]

After the first 2008 World Cup race in Maribor arguments filled the interweb on what size the new Boxxer stanchions were. 34mm, 36mm and 40mm had been thrown out there. However, as usual on the internet, everyone was wrong.

I lol'd.
They look really nice, very slick design. Will be intresting to see how many kiddies will buy them now.

[Bodin]

woo, sounds like they go alright, have SRAM always manufactured boxxers?

Only since they bought Rock Shox a few years ago. Just like they also bought Avid, Truvative and Zipp. In other words, SRAM (or the companies that SRAM own) make everything except frames, pedals, grips, tyres, seats and headsets now. I guess WTB and a frame manufacturer are next on their shopping list...

Can't wait to see the new Boxxers in the flesh. A mate of mine has 2008 World Cups, which are sensational, but these 2009 units look the business.

[eyes]

Finally... a decent review of these puppies...

Not just rubbish debating the weight, stanchion width or sticker job...

Interesting vid here:

http://www.sicklines.com/2008/11/10/...comment-193845

Thanks a tonne