BikeRadar Tech Talk Podcast Ep 4: Linkage forks

Telescopic forks dominate the market, but linkage forks, with their unique looks and potentially game-changing performance, are now appearing on the market

Mountain bike technology is moving at a staggering pace. This is what we think the bike of the future could look like.

Immediate Media

Tom Marvin

Published: August 26, 2019 at 3:00 pm

If you've got a suspension fork on your mountain bike it's most likely to be a telescopic fork, whereby the stanchions slide in and out of your fork's lowers. However, the past year or so has seen a number of linkage forks come on to the market.

In this episode of BikeRadar's Tech Talk Podcast, our suspension expert Seb Stott talks with technical editor Tom Marvin about such forks. Why do they exist? What are their advantages? And what performance characteristics do they have?

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The links you need

Trust Performance Message multi-link suspension fork
The Trust Message is perhaps the best known, current, linkage fork available. - Ben Duke

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Tom Marvin

Senior technical editor

Tom Marvin is a technical editor at BikeRadar.com and MBUK magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.
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