It would be interesting to test ride both the 2008 and 2009 Aurora Elites. The '08 has a carbon fork, the '09 has a cro-moly fork. See how much of that bump soaking is an aspect of the carbon fork. In some of the bikes I test rode, some of the carbon forks (but not all) made a big difference.
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