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RockShox Pike Team review
RockShox and its parent company (SRAM) are making a concerted effort to move the fork brand into the exploding all mountain / light freeride market and the Pike Team is RockShox’s top-end model in this category. Almost everybody I know who runs this fork has nothing but good things to say about its weight, adjustability, durability, and, most importantly, its performance.
Bike Magazine just posted an online review of the Rock Shox Pike Team and it can be filed under pretty much the same category as every other review I’ve read about the fork.
Not to be outdone, I recently placed on order for the Pike Team and will be starting its field test in the next couple of weeks. It will be an interesting test, especially since my expectations are particularly high for this product. Keep an eye out for the review — it’ll likely be online in mid-November.
Update (8 September 2005): Well it appears as though the Pike Team was ridiculously popular this year and Rock Shox, at least in Canada, is sold out of the fork and has no more coming in before the 2006 models arrive. SO, I’ll likely be waiting until January or February to get my hands on the Pike. The upside to this is that I’ll be testing the 2006 Pike 454 at the start of the new year.
1. Posted by RockShox Boxxer Ride review by Bike Magazine » The Biking Hub | 5:44 pm, 6 January 2006
[…] When SRAM purchased RockShox in 2002 the new parent company made an obvious commitment to riders who weren’t interested in the high-end Boxxer or SID that helped RockShox gain a significant share of the fork market. SRAM’s renewed focus has paid off — RockShox’s new products are receiving accolades across the industry and consumers are responding by opening their pocketbooks (the 2005 Pike lineup sold out in June in Canada). […]