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I have an Enve gravel fork on my LiteSpeed Watia gravel bike.
It's light, naturally damping, disk-ready and takes wide tires.
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They've shot themselves in the foot with the "no damper" sound byte. Their target market didn't know what that was but now they're confused about why it's missing because every MTB guy from the 90s says it sucks bc it doesn't have one.
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That is definitely a damper on the right side, and it sure looks complicated enough to force the price up over $1000.
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So, r u saying it has a damper or that forks actually don’t need dampers? I don’t understand
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can someone please quote that picture again? I haven't seen it enough times.
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Has air damper not oil damper, as noted earlier by mickey d. Once we get a service manual we’ll see what they decided to call it. I think this was a marketing mistake. Suspension forks don’t need an oil damper to function acceptably, Suntour has several air damper only forks that are indistinguishable from oil damper forks at the mid/low end. How well this works for the CC compared to other gravel forks is up for debate but if they said riders couldn’t tell the difference I find that compelling. I’d have a hard time believing they don’t already have the performance metrics for all the other gravel forks on the market to compare.
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Has anyone claimed forks need oil damping? On a side note, has anyone gone to their website to see what they claim? Maybe this is easy to answer Skimmed through website including downloadable pdf manual, saw no mention of damping I have to ask, do you work for cane creek or something???
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I'll throw my guess here that the engineers said something like, "It's all done with air, there's no oil damper", and the ad copy writers assumed there was no damper at all. |
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No damper. And the Bikerumor review (separate article) gets into more details about how it rides with no damper. https://bikerumor.com/cane-creek-invert-review/
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IMO "undamped" is incorrect terminology for this type of fork. This blurb is not an explanation([] mine): Quote:
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On the marketting blurb web page, the only mention of damping is this:
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I think it is still possible that there is a (non-adjustable) air damper, and that the lockout switch locks the damping valve shut. |
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