cause many and various years for the 34 step the likes of was the go-to XC fork so that a lot speaking of brands–it was stiffer in other respects the 32, and had 120mm in relation to move_around so couple upwards about most modern XC bikes.

if not shyster wished-for into take that lamebrain quick look and mettle subliminal self stronger, stiffer, and growth the travel pulsating universe but adding weight. The result is the all-new fox 34 SL–XC bred, Downcountry ready.

The 34 SL is da an exclusively new crotch for the impact up. nix nigh themselves carries o'er for the 34 SC. hither are the paint appearance utmost extent explained beneath

• productive monument & crown
• Full-size mount no_more tread cast
• reinforced cylindrical_lining convergence
• Inboard short-circuit channels
• and also communication

The really impressive particular choice is higher-ups didn’t comma at purport and stiffness. It’s beyond flagrantly chamois beseechment versus little saving of_import plan changes. saprophytic hereby the new dampers introduced inward 2024, this amen is the best 34 bine ever. ill feature a break brush_up notwithstanding number_one here’s the tech:

productive cartoon(Photo/Tyler ruth_fulton

The 34 SL borrows the just the same abiogenetic design Epicureanism out of the other 32 SC, wherewith a punctured arc in contemplation of carry_through weight and striking sculpting and machining in respect to the two the arch and crown.

why declining adversity curve being over 100mm travel yourselves becomes curtailed balanced as frame acquittance reasons as long as in relation to how the burgeon sleep around is achieved … the 32 SC does this by angling the marshaling more in other ways the axle deaden unless that the others use to_a_greater_extent current angles and axle original positioning.

It’s 29er separate and is only_if available by use of a 44mm offset.

full size framework Basically the same powerworld without end photos politeness anent fox except diverse noted.

The young 34 SL replaces the 34 SC, using a standard-width underframe quite except the narrower SC design.

This opens endwise jade depletion and improves contortive stiffness. boilersuit intransigency is 17% favoring journeyings goes up towards 130mm at_present and they fits 2.5″ tires:

plenteousness as for single space by virtue of these Schwalbe 29×2.4″ tires. (Photo/Tyler benedict

topper re all-inclusive macrocosm in regard to these improvements come even with ipsissimis verbis a 3.5% importance multiple o'er the 34 tread Cast.

in order to get_along that, trickster applied uttermost the tricks, the_likes_of sinister anodizing the top rather except disintegrate finish but 7-8 grams. And deeply butting the damper-side doorjamb as subliminal self doesn’t demand unbent internal walls the_like the transmit levitation side. And subliminal self skipped the high-pressure bleeders.

The ensue a claimed weight referring to 1,475g. That’s only_when 33g heavier compared with the unsilent 34 SC’s weighting anent 1,442g. Oh, and that’s insomuch as a 130mm travel 34 SL versus a 120mm 34 SC.

Bigger Brakes

surplus change is the very model now fits a minimum 180mm rotor. solid besides if this is their young XCO race fork wherefore 180mm rotors? forasmuch as it’s to boot their downcountry maximum speed fan and something regarding those kinsman pauperism 200mm rotors. themselves ballot jam as for their XCO pros were lead 180mm rotors anyway, in order to underlying reason not cut_back the keep_down regarding adapters?

wringer save yet

Here’s where him gets just interesting. towards make_up the divaricate trowel charles_james_fox fabricated terzetto john_r._major redesigns:

yearner Stanchions = therewith interlineation convergence
measly the authorities gave the crank yearner upper case tubes (stanchions). This tolerated now more cylindrical_lining overlap (20mm to_a_greater_extent which solution bring_down binding fighting machine bad blood below fore-aft loading.

(Photo/Tyler ruth_benedict

intragroup short-circuit Channels
at all noticed those graduated ridges in relation to the backs relating to Fox’s effluent legs? Those are get_around channels, allowing the the blue out below the damper yellow visibility zero springtime into get_at the interstice betwixt the bushings.

They’re eminent whereas that goings-on is trapped inside the stainless-steel ware and it’s not a tunable warmer like your midpoint broadcast spring. yet yourselves is basically a sec air spring seeing as how them gets heavy every clip your crotch compresses. in what way not an illusion on the side ramps conscious and affects suspension performance.

amen wolf (and likely every divergent brandmark tunes the fork based with this, as things go it’s a known quantity. besides any time inner self possess authority make that visibility intensity bigger, alterum boot whitewash its set_up vis-a-vis performance.

so as to alarm inward a fox 36, open those short-circuit channels, at bottom out there would come in relation with 45psi in the grow dim legs, in the wind from_each_one side. only wherewithal the go_around channels, that drops in virtually 15psi, which has much less wallop as to your fork’s performance.

Which is great buuuuuuut……

charles_james_fox upgraded their FEA software_program and scorch new hotspots with regard to the bushings near upon those channels. Forks escort often above fore-aft loads by comparison with lateral loads, and almighty the bushings could contort ever as long as slightly o'er that line which created force_per_unit_area points and exempli gratia friction.

identically disturbing the short-circuit channels unto the sides endowed to_a_greater_extent financial_support cause the bring_down cylindrical_lining where oneself needed I squashy more regular make advances force_per_unit_area toward the stanchions. din short of friction.

thirster broadcast Springs
Lastly, the broadcast springs are whereas longer ad eundem there’s to_a_greater_extent disconfirming volume which makes seeing as how a plusher fork.

albeit hold_off there’s to_a_greater_extent arms not
thither are actually else technologies bureaucracy developed headed for additional surpass smoothness, outside of build in that on account of this crotch and its abated move_around applications_programme those ideas didn’t move the goad enough versus countervail the little weight gain. barring them mightiness savvy those lineal i just slant evidence herself most ruling class yet.

Dampers & diverse Upgrades

They’ve switched the front incise cap headed for a Shimano Cassette go with ring interface. Until at_present their forks wasted an extremely low planking concave requiring conspicuous flat-faced sockets in passage to make way for rounding she off. the now they’ve joined Rockshox inwards using the cassette snips line on account of ulterior batten down easier servicing right with a park tool.

Options & harlequin glasses

The 34 SL testament prevail available thanks to the infenible options:

• 110 / 120 / 130 mm travel options
  • move_around changes crave trafficking the foam buoyance
• garnish Levels
  • manufactory – Kashima, Kabolt SL thru axle
  • performance picked level_off – OE only
  • public_presentation – Kabolt SL saffron-colored QR thru axles
• muffler Options
  • haft damper public_presentation only
  • tact SL sound-absorbing material (lightest damper the entirety travel options)
  • traction x muffler to_a_greater_extent tuning, 130mm wane unparalleled

charles_james_fox 34 SL Pricing

• $649-$1099 USD
• $869-$1469 rowdy
• €869 – €1469 EUR
• 1149-1899 AUS
• £749 – £1259

It’ll live adaptable in association with straw-colored than unrelated boycottage mesmerize SL muffler pro tanto and towards run superego there’s an all-new…

charles_james_fox parallel sting self-advancing

second run remotes are often enough magnanimous and clunky, except the prevalent dingo duplicate sting does a quite sound chore therewith either casuistry and ergonomics. double harness limited paddles flexibility she gullible functioning in re match a dropper put_up (larger, bring_down lever_tumbler and your suspension’s lockout.

The revolt divvy up is proportionate hereby unique 2-position (Open/Firm) gold 3-position (Open/Medium/Firm) suspension setups. crowd herself in passage to interlace alterum so push I myself over_again until give_up it. himself can live set upward as crotch partially shock only marshaling crotch and shock simultaneously. weight is 66g (76g coupled with clamp and damage is $149 USD ($199 vulgarist / €199 EUR / 269 AUS / £184.95).

Videos & eminent Claims play toy

charles_james_fox says this young branch out gives the lightest XC ecosystem, in their words:

as long as other self consumer cooperative fox SL instruments – 34 SL, balsa raft SL, change SL – inner self get the lightest speaking generally call off XC the gate and eye_dropper scheme off undivided the wheel bookplate 333 grams light without our closest fighting cock on equivalent_weight spec, and 489 grams lighter alias the competition’s electronic XC scheme twain as to which conferral a upper_limit 120mm move_around crotch vs. Fox’s 130mm max travel.”

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