Right now I am in the process of purchasing a new fork but I am not sure which type I should look in to. I weight 135 and do XC with the occasional 3" drop. What do you ride and what do you recommend:

Coil/elastomer
Dual Coil
U-turn
Single sided coil with Air Assist
HydraCoil
Hydra Air
Dual Air

Can someone tell me the difference between these and which one would be perfect?

Thanks in advance

IMHO there is no perfect fork for everyone. Personally i ride a dual coil Z1 marzocchi and i would never change coils for anything else. I dont like air at all.

what the difference you can feel between air and coil?

Coil is more progressive as far as i know. Air is less reliable. Advantage of coil is that it never leaks air (duuh!). Air leaks , even very slowly. Also air cannot handle big loads.

is an air fork lighter than a coil? because there is no coil to weigh it down? Obviously

hmmmmmmm ic

then what is the difference between hydra air/ hydra coil and regualr air/coil?

Hydra air?...now I am curious...

Its on the RS Duke race with no u -turn. I am very curious too

Any idea what Rock SHox Judy TT forks use?

Coil/elastomer

my elastomer on my judy tt has almost disinigrated so its close to bottoming out.

ok.... ty m8 What u think of the fork? ANy good ?

are you coming off a rigid?

I think the hydracoil is a combonation coil/air shock. One side (left maybe) has the air chamber, which controlls compression, and the other side has a coil, which controlls rebound.

I didnt have any experience with rockshox but here in the UK everybody seems to have problems with them. One thing that i dont like with rockshox is that you got spare parts and support only if your fork is at maximum 2yrs old.

No i coming off a set of crappy ZOOMS from my old bike.... they are stock on my new bike MAth... so ill see what they're like and then after a paid my parents back what i owe them for the bike i may get sum discs... or sum forks.... i dunno though :S

icic weight wise (135lb) whihc one would benefit me more?