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Originally Posted by spoonrobot
The argument is the lack of oil damper makes it junk because short travel forks in the 1990s weren't good (apparently). Looking at the disassembled view and the various schematics available for the AD systems and other systems without oil damping I think it's clear the damping is provided by the air spring system in addition to the seals/rings and surface treatments.
IMO "undamped" is incorrect terminology for this type of fork.
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I didn’t make that argument. Although early short travel forks do feel surprisingly terrible compared to modern forks. I think the Marzocchi bomber was the first fork that kinda felt like a modern fork. Smooth, low stiction , etc