New Zealand’s SRAM distributor just fired through these press releases from the recent Taipei trade show. As you may have guessed from the lack of posts, I’ve been on the road so there is a small chance you may have picked this info up elsewhere… So here you go, three new products and three posts. First up Rock Shox new 150mm fork the Sektor, which just happens to come in more variations than… well… there’s a tonne of variations.
Rock Shox Sektor
This new sleek trail suspension from RockShox can only be described as a modern fork that transcends all. With a diverse range of options and an amazing price to performance ratio, this trailblazer can hang with its more refined counterpart, RockShox very own Revelation.
Revelation set the bar for all front suspension that performs in the 150mm travel arena. To continue the RockShox promise we had to work hard to uphold performance and low weight in such an affordable fork. The “outside the box” approach in spring and weight development really tells a story about creativity and innovation in product development.
Sektor is about choice and being able to acquire a product that performs for your trail riding needs. We start with the 9mm QR, 15×100 or 20×110 Maxle Lite offerings and then provide you three spring options; Coil, Solo Air and U-Turn. This fork offers affordable and exciting options.
• Travel: 130, 140, 150mm (Solo Air, Coil), 100-140mm or 110-150mm (U-Turn) • Damping: Motion Control (RL), TurnKey lockout (TK) and external rebound (R) • Forged, hollow 6061 T-6 aluminum crown • 32mm 7075 aluminum upper tubes • Redesigned external rebound adjuster • 9mm QR, 15mm Maxle Lite, 20mm Maxle Lite • 1 1/8” Aluminum steerer, 1 1/8” to 1.5” tapered aluminum steerer, 1.5” aluminum steerer.
Available in New Zealand in August
After purchasing a Ragley Piglet frame from chainreactioncycles, I went to http://www.bikexcs.ro to have my brand new rock shox recon u-turn installed.When the mechanic cut the fork pipe, it was so short that it would not come out the other side of the bike.The shop offered to weld it back on and I started to laugh.Than they offered to exchange it for an used pike u-turn, once again I refused the offer.The shop finally gave me a sektor u-turn 110-150.A week after riding the bike to the office I took my Piglet to a light off road open muddy field.Half an hour later the fork just droped.I put the lock on the fork and barley managed to get to a gas station to wash the mud off and see what happened.The next day the fork was at the shop again.At the shop I was told sram does not allow 150mm forks on hardtails but they will overlook it, and that I will also have to pay for some parts because the fork was power washed.Also the shop gave me to use the same pikeu-turn.They also told me,this first time, that the fork does not work.Since http://www.bikexcs.ro was not authorised by Sram to fix the sektor the fork had to be sent to http://www.dhsbike.ro .During the three weeks I had to wait for the fork to be repaired at the Sram authorised dealer,I purchased a bike for my daughter from the same shop, I sent them new customers that purchased a new bike from them.When I asked why it took such a long time, I was told that the Sram mechanics had a race to go to.Also I was told that I had to ride aggressively because the fork lock does not work and it might start working, if the lock does not work I should bring the fork back for repairs.
After purchasing a Ragley Piglet frame from chainreactioncycles, I went to http://www.bikexcs.ro to have my brand new rock shox recon u-turn installed.When the mechanic cut the fork pipe, it was so short that it would not come out the other side of the bike.The shop offered to weld it back on and I started to laugh.Than they offered to exchange it for an used pike u-turn, once again I refused the offer.The shop finally gave me a sektor u-turn 110-150.A week after riding the bike to the office I took my Piglet to a light off road open muddy field.Half an hour later the fork just droped.I put the lock on the fork and barley managed to get to a gas station to wash the mud off and see what happened.The next day the fork was at the shop again.At the shop I was told sram does not allow 150mm forks on hardtails but they will overlook it, and that I will also have to pay for some parts because the fork was power washed.Also the shop gave me to use the same pikeu-turn.They also told me,this first time, that the fork does not work.Since http://www.bikexcs.ro was not authorised by Sram to fix the sektor the fork had to be sent to http://www.dhsbike.ro .During the three weeks I had to wait for the fork to be repaired at the Sram authorised dealer,I purchased a bike for my daughter from the same shop, I sent them new customers that purchased a new bike from them.When I asked why it took such a long time, I was told that the Sram mechanics had a race to go to.Also I was told that I had to ride aggressively because the fork lock does not work and it might start working, if the lock does not work I should bring the fork back for repairs.