Originally Posted by
zukahn1
This is the budget model they used the cheaper suspension fork with short travel to save cost over using a nicer carbon fork. It rides fine the fork is kinda pointless with short travel probably more for marketing it would likely ride about the same or better if they just went with strait bladed rigid fork.
Those hybrid forks are around 5 pounds more or less, I picked up a rigid SE 29" Landing Gear fork on ebay. big difference in weight and handles great. There is one currently for sale now.