All New: FOX Podium Forks
Welcome to the unfair advantage with FOX Podium Forks.
FOX has never stopped innovating. They continuously push the potential of MTB suspension to give both gravity riders & racers the edge. Whether it’s the World Cup Course, the steepest & gnarliest descent, or anything in between.
FOX Podium has been created to be ridden like a typical downhill fork. Instilling complete confidence on every ride that your front wheel will hold the line, no matter how fast or how big you push it. All this, whilst still keeping your bike in a familiar range of travel and geometry in a single crown package.
This inverted fork was designed to get the absolute maximum performance out of the GRIP X2 damper, with all possible gain for the best smoothness in its travel and confidence-inducing rigidity in the chassis.
Here’s our complete rundown of the FOX Podium Forks, to secure your own and for even more info on specs & availability, follow the links below.
OVERSIZED UPPERS. OVERBUILT CROWN.
The biggest edge Podium has over every other single crown fork is its incredible fore-aft rigidity.
The combination of oversized 47mm upper tubes and a massively generatively designed crown creates the foundation for the stiffest possible chassis, approaching that of a FOX 40, letting you power through the roughest and steepest trails with absolute confidence, even at Downhill race speed.
LARGE DIAMETER AXLE
Where inverted forks have fallen short in the past is with torsional (steering) stiffness because there’s no arch joining the fork legs. This meant FOX had to build torsional stiffness into other parts of the fork.
The oversized crown has the upper end covered, so the next logical place to add stiffness was where the fork legs join on the lower end.
By using a custom steel 20 x 110mm Boost DH axle (rather than a standard 15 x 110mm alloy axle typically found on single crown forks), FOX achieved the optimum torsional stiffness for Podium.
This was verified with extensive (and blind) testing by FOX engineers and athletes.
ALL THE BUSHING OVERLAP
Bushings are Teflon-lined sleeves that interface between the upper and lower legs of the fork. There are two bushings in each leg, for a total of four in a fork. “Bushing overlap” refers to the distance between upper and lower bushings in each leg.
As the fork is loaded fore-aft (such as when running over an obstacle on the trail), that bending force is transmitted through the bushings. The inverted chassis configuration allowed FOX to design Podium with a massive 75mm of bushing overlap.
That’s 32% more overlap than the 38, and even 7% more than the 200mm-travel FOX 40 DH race fork.
GLIDECORE AIR SPRING
When a fork is dynamically loaded, that bending force is transmitted to the air spring assembly inside the stanchion. A large enough force, such as hitting a large rock or root at high speed, can cause the air spring to bind to the inside of the stanchion while the fork is compressing through its travel.
The GlideCore air spring is built with lateral compliance, allowing it to flex with these bending loads, rather than resisting them.
By decoupling the stanchion from the air shaft, the piston can move with the fork and remains axially aligned with the stanchion when subjected to a bending load from any direction.
CUSTOM TUNED GRIP X2 DAMPER
Podium’s damping performance is powered by the award-winning GRIP X2 damper, tuned specifically for more compression support.
Given the incredible rigidity and smoothness of Podium, FOX needed to add some additional compression damping to account for the reduced chassis friction.
They also toned down the rebound damping slightly to account for the lower unsprung weight of the system.
Riders on GRIP X2 reap the benefits of sitting higher in the travel while their tyres stay glued to the ground.
They can corner with increased traction, giving them the confidence to push the limits of enduro racing and full power eMTB riding, all while reducing hand and arm fatigue significantly.
SHORTER BUSHING TO AXLE
Amongst early testers and FOX athletes, a consistent piece of feedback was “the harder I push it, the smoother it feels”. A big part of this performance gain is due to the shorter distance from the lower fork bushing to the axle.
On a traditional fork, the bushing-to-axle distance is fixed. When an inverted fork compresses throughout its travel, the axle moves closer to the lower bushing and the bending leverage on that lower bushing is decreased, and as a result, the fork motion feels smoother the deeper the fork goes into its travel.
When the trail conditions get tough, Podium rises to the occasion.
FOX PODIUM FACTORY 29er FORKS
PODIUM
No barriers. No hesitation.
Complete confidence that your front wheel will hold the line, no matter how fast or how big you push it.
RRP £2,199.00
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