{"id":5337,"date":"2015-05-22T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:13:27","slug":"norco-factory-team-evan-mcneely-reviews-rockshoxs-rs1-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/2015\/05\/norco-factory-team-evan-mcneely-reviews-rockshoxs-rs1-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Norco Factory Team&#8217;s Evan McNeely reviews the RockShox&#8217;s RS1 fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"\/\/www.norco.com\/athletes\/teams\/norco-factory-team\/evan-mcneely\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norco Factory Team&#8217;s Evan McNeely<\/a> reviews the RockShox RS-1 inverted fork on \u00a0mcsneaky.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rockshox-rs-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5338\" src=\"\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rockshox-rs-1.jpg\" alt=\"rockshox-rs-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rockshox-rs-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rockshox-rs-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rockshox-rs-1-500x263.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Rockshox RS1 Inverted Fork is Science Nonfiction<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/evan-revolver-fs-rs1-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5339\" src=\"\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/evan-revolver-fs-rs1-web-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"evan-revolver-fs-rs1-web\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/evan-revolver-fs-rs1-web-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/evan-revolver-fs-rs1-web-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/evan-revolver-fs-rs1-web.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s because it is inverted.<\/p>\n<p>Inverted forks are better than the standard \u201cright way up\u201d 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>+ Keep reading Evan&#8217;s blog at <a href=\"\/\/mcsneaky.com\/rockshox-rs1-inverted-fork\/\" target=\"_blank\">mcsneaky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norco Factory Team&#8217;s Evan McNeely reviews the RockShox RS-1 inverted fork on \u00a0mcsneaky.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&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[595,201,636,503,744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}