Originally Posted by
Mr. Smashy
Very nice.
I'm really impressed with the Domain line, at least the 318 IS version. It's a lot of fork for the money. For said money, it blows away anything from the other major fork players at a similar pricepoint. IMO. Under 6.5# for a 7" fork that you can find for less than $500 is a steal. The Mo-Co damping is great - I find myself never really messing with the Floodgate and so on with the Mi-Co damping on my Lyrik, so don't miss it. I'd just as soon have that more basic damper on it as well. Rebound control works well. They are plenty stiff, and the Maxle rocks. Less full feature, but also less to mess up/break/go wrong. I find RS forks to be stupid easy to work on, as well.
Granted if someone is one who likes to fiddle and tune their forks to no end, then the Marzocchi stuff is better for that. But for set it and forget it, RS stuff works great.
Only thing I think Rock Shox/SRAM missed the boat on with these and the 180mm coil Totem was not offering a U-turn version. IF they could do it with the Boxxer Ride (133mm-178mm) why not with these?