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Re: boxxers
tell me how you know this? Im pretty sure teh actual boxxer prototype didnt surface even for racers till 1997, i know that there was a DHO/Judy thing going on in 1996. Found this
also here is a picture of him racing cairns in 1996, although I very much recognise the 1996 bike being sold on ebay in lots of old dirt mags etc it doenst look like the one raced at cairns that year.....
http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-img ... ocl5noRK3M
unless this wanst his actual run
webby":2jwu89kq said:
tell me how you know this? Im pretty sure teh actual boxxer prototype didnt surface even for racers till 1997, i know that there was a DHO/Judy thing going on in 1996. Found this
also here is a picture of him racing cairns in 1996, although I very much recognise the 1996 bike being sold on ebay in lots of old dirt mags etc it doenst look like the one raced at cairns that year.....
http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-img ... ocl5noRK3M
unless this wanst his actual run
He was beaten in 1996 by Nico Vouilloz who was also using prototype Boxxers, so they were certainly around in 96.
He may have started the season on DHOs, doesn't mean that RS didn't pick him up as a development rider later in the year as he was doing so well and was the DH poster boy that year.
He may have started the season on DHOs, doesn't mean that RS didn't pick him up as a development rider later in the year as he was doing so well and was the DH poster boy that year.
pete_mcc":3f1oolxs said:
Did the boxxer name appear in 96 or in 97 though?
Remember DHO's were only released to the public in 1997, so did rockshox have two development forks for pro dh racesr in 1996, then release the DHO in 1997 and then release the boxxer in 1998 :?
Doesn't make sense :?:
Dont get me wrong I genuinly dont know. I have lots of pictures of those forks that most of the 96 season top pros are running. but were they called dho's or boxxers?
They are quite different to the prototype boxxers used in the 97 season which looked very similar to the general release 98, externaly only graphics and a removable bridge.
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DHOs didn't last long in the market and were superceded very quickly by Boxxers. They appeared in some 97 catalogues and they were dropped by 1998.
In the 1997 RS catalogue they refer to DHO having 'Boxxer style dropouts' so they were talking about both then, yet in 1996 many DHOs had QR axles just to confuse. In 1998 it was all about Boxxers and DHOs didn't appear in the line up at all.
The suspension market at that time was in overdrive so it's not a wonder that some pros got the old toys and some the new, even in the same year.
All I remember is that you could buy a heavily discounted set of DHOs in 1998 as 4" of elastomer and oil really wasn't cutting it against 6" travel coil and oil rear ends that were being used by then. A load of them got turned into 'Slalom forks by adding a DH set of upper legs and crown.
The photo of Shaun and Nico (and most of the pros) on that site you list show them using Boxxer protos with larger leg diameter and Boxxer crowns (look also at the colour of the upper legs, much darker than the gold DHO legs).
This one of Leigh shows her using DHOs with QR front and smaller legs
http://www.photoshelter.com/image?_bqH= ... eNWsfWqpgE
In the 1997 RS catalogue they refer to DHO having 'Boxxer style dropouts' so they were talking about both then, yet in 1996 many DHOs had QR axles just to confuse. In 1998 it was all about Boxxers and DHOs didn't appear in the line up at all.
The suspension market at that time was in overdrive so it's not a wonder that some pros got the old toys and some the new, even in the same year.
All I remember is that you could buy a heavily discounted set of DHOs in 1998 as 4" of elastomer and oil really wasn't cutting it against 6" travel coil and oil rear ends that were being used by then. A load of them got turned into 'Slalom forks by adding a DH set of upper legs and crown.
The photo of Shaun and Nico (and most of the pros) on that site you list show them using Boxxer protos with larger leg diameter and Boxxer crowns (look also at the colour of the upper legs, much darker than the gold DHO legs).
This one of Leigh shows her using DHOs with QR front and smaller legs
http://www.photoshelter.com/image?_bqH= ... eNWsfWqpgE
