For the first time since 1996, RockShox completely redesigned their Boxxer fork, the most successful fork in downhill racing history. (Scroll down for on-board 2010 Boxxer video) No fork has won more downhill championships, and the first prototypes, over 12 years ago, had six inches of travel and cost approximately $30000 each.
I recently had the opportunity to ride all three models of the new, 2010 Boxxers at La Fenasosa Bike Park, an hour outside of Alicante, Spain. The flowy, rock-strewn trails were challenging, and featured a variety of natural and man-made obstacles, ideal for testing the new eight-inch-travel forks and RockShox Vivid shocks. SRAM provided a stable of top-shelf downhill rigs for mountain bike media to ride. I spent my few days there aboard a medium-sized Santa Cruz V10.
ON BOARD WITH BOXXER I mounted a GoPro digital video camera on my seat post for an on-board perspective of the new RockShox Boxxer on a La Fenasosa Bike Park downhill trail.
