Originally Posted by
Koyote
Care to elaborate?
I posted a review in this sub-forum on
in 2018. It looks like I removed vital parts before terminating my account.
Briefly, I rented their bike for 24 hours and took it to my usual place. I (still) ride a custom steel bike with a 1st gen Enve CX rigid fork. At the time, I used Clement tires. I really liked the idea of the fork, so this wasn't simply expectation bias. The fork pogoed quite a bit, but the carbon frame, compared to my steel frame, was very harsh to the point that it beat me up so much on the downhill, I decided to take a paved road back to the starting point rather than climb out. Others suggested the problem was the (Maxis something) tires were over-inflated, so I hadn't done a fair comparison. (I wasn't really out to do a highly controlled experiment; putting the Lauf fork on my bike with my tires, etc, would have been much more revelatory.) But I was surprised not to like the fork, and the frame came as a complete shock. (I was neutral about the frame.) I probably deleted my original commentary because it turned out to be unintentionally controversial, and I didn't want to attract more attention.