Norco Factory Team’s Evan McNeely reviews the RockShox RS-1 inverted fork on  mcsneaky.com

Rockshox RS1 Inverted Fork is Science Nonfiction

I am cyclist that lives with students who are not cyclists. So inevitably, whenever I receive a new bike for the racing season, in this case a Norco Revolver 9, it gets a lot of attention as anything new and shiny would. This particular time I decided to play a little trick on them and mentioned I had accidentally assembled the fork, the new Rockshox RS1, upside down and that I would have to fix it. The response was a long silence. They could not wrap their heads around what they were seeing and how it could be upside down.

They are not entirely to blame because the RS1 inverted fork does look like something out of a science fiction movie (the first thing that comes to my mind is a laser cannon on a Stars Wars battlecruiser, but maybe that’s just me). Only this is nonfiction, and it is awesome. The Rockshox RS1 a mountain biking technology that I can stand behind as actually making a difference in the ride quality of a bike. The RS1 makes a difference for the very reason you have to double check what you are looking at; it’s because it is inverted.

Inverted forks are better than the standard “right way up” forks and I am going to explain why. Rockshox claims a ton of different technologies in the RS1 fork such as predictive steering, accelerator damping, rapid recovery and sag gradients; which are all very good fun, but every fork Rockshox makes includes these technologies as well. The fact that the RS1 is inverted is the difference maker, and here is what all the hype is about…

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