Originally Posted by wethepeople

Look at the dropouts, it's on right. The crown is just on the back instead of the front.

Originally Posted by CaptMatt15

or you could just know its a Pace fork in the first place :p

Originally Posted by Choccy

Well here's an old picture, since this was taken I've added XTR front and rear mechs, XTR crank, XT wheels on XC717, Thomson seatpost and Xpedo Ti/Ti pedals.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...Superlight.jpg

Originally Posted by OneTinSloth

that is a pace fork, not a risse.

Originally Posted by RyanReid

Does anybody have any good things to say about the Kona Blast?

Originally Posted by santiago

My Kona Blast matches a pair a shorts I bought perfectly.

Originally Posted by free_pizza

Do you have any pics of these sweet shorts? :)

Originally Posted by MattP.

True, but internals are no good with gouged stanchions.

Would you either:
1) Run stanchion guards, and possible have to put new oil in it sooner than expected. Maybe $30 at a LBS if you don't know how?

or

2) Not run them, possible ding your stanchion, have to purchase a new upper assembly and send the fork off to be rebuilt? For a Lyrik (just throwing number out there), it runs about $320 for the uppers alone, add on service and you're looking at about $400? That's for RockShox, I'm sure Fox charges quite a bit more.

Choice is a no-brainer for me.

Originally Posted by DasProfezzional

Non sequitur. I'd keep the stanchion guards for a muddy day, but would keep them off all the rest. If you don't throw your bike on the ground, there aren't going to be many rocks coming up at the stanchions. How would they get there?

Unless you have angered the forest sprites, or unless you plan on tossing your bike where it shouldn't be tossed, the front wheel won't kick rocks up anywhere near the stanchions, if it kicks them up at all. Mud on the backsides is a problem, which is why I would keep the guards for the nasties.

Originally Posted by MattP.

True, but internals are no good with gouged stanchions.

Originally Posted by R. Danneskjöld

You don't get it.

If you use a lizardskin as a "stanchion guard" you dramatically increase your chances of gouging your stanchions, due to abrasives that invariably migrate between the lizardskin and the stanchions as the shock cycles.

Originally Posted by MattP.

Very true, never though about that. But do you agree, that running Lizard skins will prevent (to an extent) the chance of getting your stanchion dinged by a rock when say you get a little to close to a rack wall?

Originally Posted by MattP.

But do you agree, that running Lizard skins will prevent (to an extent) the chance of getting your stanchion dinged by a rock when say you get a little to close to a rack wall?

Originally Posted by R. Danneskjöld

You don't get it.

If you use a lizardskin as a "stanchion guard" you dramatically increase your chances of gouging your stanchions, due to abrasives that invariably migrate between the lizardskin and the stanchions as the shock cycles.