Originally Posted by
IrishBrewer
Is that what they refer to as the Uni-Crown fork? If so, I've never seen one of those on a Rockhopper and the Spec reference doesn't show these on any Rockhoppers either, just selected Stumpjumper models. To be honest, it is hard to imagine the amount of force that it would take to trash one of the curved crown cro-mo forks such that the crown needed any more beefing up. Seems like your wheel would be way gone before doing much damage to those forks.
Okay, yeah... the Unicrown is what you are referring to, and most MTB manufacturers switched to that shortly after mountain biking blew up in the mid-late `80s. That's what is on the nice red Rock Hopper in the photo.