|   Sweet new THE Forks | DSDH2
Oct 3, 2001 6:41 AM | | Copied from speedgoat.com....
Toby Henderson is importing the incredible-feeling Kowa Japanese forks under his own T.H.E. brand, and these forks are promising to be what White Brothers always wished they'd made. Provided you can cough up the more than $2000 necessary to own that big DH model in the middle, you should be one very happily suspended rider. |
| re: Sweet new THE Forks | valve bouncer (Jap)
Oct 3, 2001 7:23 AM | | Those beefy bastardos in the middle look like what the Japs call the Kowa GISM (I kid you not) 40. The 40 is the stanchion size. They get 200mm of travel and weigh in at 3.04kgs. They have pre-load, rebound and compression adjustment. The other ones look like the Kowa MOBS STAGE 2, with 180mm of travel, 35mm stanchions and weigh in at 2.82 kgs. Adjustments are as for the GISM forks. RRP on the GISMs is about $2000 US here in Japan (at the present exchange rate). The MOBS STAGE 2 are about $1700 US. They also have a 160mm travel dble crown fork that goes for around US$ 1000, comparable to a JR T by the look of it. By comparison here in the land of small nervous people, Marzocchi forks are much cheaper. A Shiver is around 1400US$, JR T US$650
The above info is about as much as my pathetic Jap language skills would let me translate from one of my Jap mtnbike mags.
The forks look real nice and I'm sure they are real nice. Lots of Japs ride them.....but the price.....I'm stickin with Marzocchi thank you very much. |
| those were the only forks that were like the Fox in terms of | Jm
Oct 3, 2001 11:31 AM | | feel, when I was messing around with the "THE" forks, they felt very similer to the smoothness I found in the Fox forks. The stroke is extremely smooth, however the price is pretty outrages, I doubt Kowa charges anything near that for their motocross forks, you would be just as well off with an Avalanche, still the "THE" forks were incredibly smooth. |
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