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Fox 32 TALAS 150 FIT RLC 15QR fork review

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Fox 32 TALAS 150 FIT RLC 15QR suspension fork

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4 out of 5 stars

"Flexy at 150mm but super-smooth, highly-tunable travel-adjustable suspension – if you can afford it"

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Sun 19 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm BSTBy

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The TALAS gets a gold Kashima coating on the stanchions for 2011 and a new two-position travel-adjust switch, giving either 110-140mm or the 120-150mm tested here. The honed chassis and FIT damping cartridge make it light for a travel-adjust fork. But even with a screw-through 15QR axle, overall stiffness suffers slightly in this longer version.

The Kashima coating and a lower compression tune mean small bump performance and traction are excellent. The linear, coil-like stroke and FIT cartridge give consistent control from stutter bumps to square edge slams, with adjustable low-speed compression if braking dive bothers you.

The quarter-turn TALAS lever drops the front for climbing or tight trails and there’s an adjustable threshold lockout too. Our test fork still looks and feels brand new despite being ridden hard continually since last summer, leaving only the price as a real obstacle.

This article was originally published in What Mountain Bike magazine.

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  • How much?

  • That's a crazy price to pay unless either you have plenty of disposable income or a pro :-(

  • I got a '10 100-140 one for half price when they were current (ie, beginbning of last year), the street price always seems to be a fraction of the MSRP on forks, I suppose so that people can say "wow, my new bike came with the thousand pound fork fitted and is therefore better value etc etc"

    I'd be looking for one at about 500 quid .. which is still a lot of money but it is quite a lot of fork (good point about the travel reduction though, retrograde step that)

    4/5 based upon my exp with the 2010 32 TALAS RLT. Pike Uturn coil is (was) stiffer and smoother but buttloads heavier. If you want light weight and long travel with adjustable length, 32 TALAS is pretty much the way to go I think. choosing between that and the rev though, I'd probably follow the price

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Specification

Name:
32 Talas 150 FIT RLC 15QR suspension fork (11)
Built by:
Fox
Price:
$945.00

Description:
Axle: 15mm, QR available, Travel: 120-150mm, Steerer: tapered available, Adjustments: air pressure, rebound, compression, lockout, lockout threshold
Weight (kg):
1.697 kg
Steerer Size:
1 1/8 Inches
Spring Adjustment:
Air pressure

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