I have a bucklos air fork on my bike. It's been on there for a couple of years now and gotten its share of trails. It's still holding up fine. Worth the money imo.
The stickers are made to be able to be removed if you don’t like them. Also I’ve ridden that very fork on my old bike (I’m 200lbs and 6’3”). I’ve beat the snot out of it on jumps and drops for a solid few months without and trouble. I recently sold my bike to build another and it’s still going strong with the buyer (he’s roughly the same size as me). I think that’s more than what you can ask out of a $136 fork in my opinion. Safe riding!
Bought a Lutu 27.5 as part of an 26er mullet bike experiment several years ago. Over 1000 miles ridden on this fork. Nothing more than XC oriented trails but never a failure. This invovled two different riders weighing in at 130 and 170 lbs. Also, this helped bring aluminum bike to under 30lbs and improved geometry slightly. I can't complain and feel that this is great bang for the buck if you are not a heavy or abusive rider.
Great teardown! Just got these, excited to try them. First impression was positive on my end - no trouble setting brakes up and not a scratch on it despite kinda crappy packaging. I emailed the company with some questions and for maintenance documentation and they got back to me same day. I think they're making an honest attempt at put out a solid product. Time will tell!
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 I've got a dozen trouble-free hours so far. No air leak at all, all settings respond well to fine tuning. Definitely clean the stanchions thoroughly every ride. Only thing is I'm not a fast/aggressive rider so I don't know if it could handle a savage pounding.
I put two of these on some electric assist bikes that we ride on asphalt trails and a little light dirt trails... so far they are great. I'm sure that hard mountain biking would reveal their weaknesses, but for what we use them for they are really nice... very smooth ride when combined with a cushy seat and a suspension seatpost.
hey guys i have a 120mm Chinese air fork also and overall I am pretty satisfied with it. it has plastic bushings instead of foam rings which is kinda disappointing but this fork performs pretty well. and I have bottomed out the fork quite a lot and everything is still working well. overall I wouldn't recommend these forks for any downhill or extreme riding but xc and doing jumps on these forks works well. keep in mind I only been using these forks for a month now so I will see if it holds up in the future.
All forks offered on Amazon, Aliexpress, Alibaba etc are from one manufacturer, they just stick different stickers on the forks ... 9:13...its Aluminium
I came from Christine's channel. I didn't even know what I was looking at until he partially put it together at around 2 minutes. I'm not from the world of biking. I didn't even know this was a thing 😅
Regarding the lockout, that small amount of movement in the start of the stroke is pretty much cancelled with sag. Just an fyi. I would have loved to have seen the internals of the air spring
Stimmt, ist auch eine ähnliche Preisklasse. Die xcr hab ich selber. Hab mir die bucklos auch bestellt. Was ich nicht kapiere, meine unterscheidet sich( was das Design der Bedienelemente und des nur manuellen lockouts betrifft) doch von meiner. Auch steht an der Seite nicht lutu und sie ist 10 bis 15€günstiger. Sind das 2 verschiedene Modelle?
@@dercrosscountryracer1089 Warum nicht gleich ne gebrauchte vernünftige Gabel kaufen? In der Preisklasse bekommt man auch schon mal ne Reba (XC) oder Revelation (Trails) ...
@@samteks125 in der preisklasse bekommt man keine vernünftige luftfedergabel. Gerade roxschox sind richtig teuer, und wenn sie günstig sind, sind sie meist abgerockt. Ausserdem, soo schlecht ist die bucklos gar nicht. Das einzige was ihr fehlt, ist die motion control.
My Bolany fat fork with rebound works about the same as yours. You should lubricate the stanchions to try to get some lubricant in the plastic bushings before installing it on the bike. The lowers are magnesium, which sorta feels like plastic. It has to be made of metal so the dropouts can handle the clamping force and load of the tire.
Love the way they just use the adjuster knob from an old model of manitou fork. Someone must have a box of excess of those. Probably the reason it has clicks even though the adjustment in the actual cartridge damper is evidently just an on/off lockout.
I've had these for a year, using them for XC on my hardtail. The Lockout failed after a few Weeks on them but they are still stiff enough for me when pumped up and make my Giant Talon bike so much lighter. They don't feel strong enough for anything other than Road/Path
They are decent forks for the price so long as you use them within the activities designed for, the red oil in the air chamber is not uncommon and is used to help seal and lubricate the piston, the lowers are made fully of magnesium which is incredibly light and lighter than even aluminum and so might feel plastic or cheap but that is usual for a mag lower. As for oil in the lower they are a lot like suntour in that they do not use oil in the lower just grease and even some of the more expensive brands do not use oil
So I assume for street/beach riding these forks are pretty decent. I installed these on 3 of my fat tire ebikes, where they replaced 2 cheap/heavy spring shocks & 1 solid fork, seem okay so far.
This seems like a redesign of an old fox fork like a FIT CTD damper, its likely an old design no longer covered by patent, made with cheap manufacturing, so as long as its not that cheap its prob still a decent fork, if not a little outdated on the damper
I bought the 27.5 version last month for 144canadian just insanely cheap. I needed a qr fork for GT idrive 5 parts bike that I built up for city riding with michelin country rock 1.75 tires at 65 psi with 5 inches of suspension is really fun to ride and this working great .I am shocked at how good the fork is for the money. Btw the 27.5 fork have is actually 120mm travel as tested and measured. Thank you for the great video as I was wondering what maintenance it will need and looks like just seals and grease from your video. It replaced an old heavy marzocchi bomber fork that weight over a pound more and had blown nitro piston .
I had a bad experience with a Bucklos Factory 32 140mm fork that I installed on my 26" bike. After about 300km in the city, I noticed that I was losing oil from the rebound screw. No help from Bucklos and I couldn't find anything on TH-cam to solve the problem. The lower air side screw spins in a vacuum and does not want to be removed and does not want to be tightened again.$#%&*(*(% To help those who wonder how many milliliters and what kind of oil; 5ml / 80W
I totally agree with your assessment. Your son is probably going to outgrow the bike before you need to replace the fork. Even if you need to replace it, 2 of those cost about the same as an entry level name brand. I still use my old walmart bike spring fork with no rebound, non lockout; I just spray with lubricant with PTFE because I cannot disassemble and cannot even see what it looks like inside. Steerer tube is even smaller than 1 inch. Cannot replace it with anything.
These are just rebranded suntour forks with a newer damper. Has the same air spring, seals Nd parts as an xcr air but has a newer damper. It's crazy how no-one has really noticed this. They go really well with 15-20wt fork oil in the lowers, some foam rings and better seals. I'm running extra float fluid in the air chamber to ramp up the progressiveness at the end of the stroke as well as foam rings and 15wt fork oil as lower leg lube. Wolds apart from what it was when received. These newer style dampers can be had for $30 on eBay and can be retrofitted into any fork... I've thrown one of these dampers in an old xcm laying here and a dnm fork. The newer models of this fork have a different casting for the lowers as well as I just got another a few weeks ago. This set of lowers has metal bushings instead of the plastic bushings in the older lowers.
Is there a guide on how to service it in the manner you spoke of? I'm a professional mechanic but I'm new to MTB forks, and would love to learn and optimize it
It 'seems' plenty good enough. Did you add any and what kind of oil to any of the lowers upon reassembly? I am replacing a 2002 Manitou 6 Comp 100mm coil fork. I took it apart for the 1st time ever bc I wanted to be 'responsible'...lol...The plastic access nut on the bottom was seized and I had to drill and easy-out it out. (I hate plastic essential parts). There was not a drop of oil in it. I remember some draining out 15+ years ago when I stored the bike upside down. But I didn't think much drained out and it seemed fine...lol...On teardown 2 weekends ago it had no rusty parts with lots of grease. I am pretty sure I could make some fabrications to put it all back together without it leaking. I am thinking of buying the fork you just covered. I might even go cheaper to a Mercoa $90 air fork that has no rebound adjustment bc I never really had or needed it...lol...I am 5'10" 185 lbs and just do xc and lots of wheelies. Does rebound adjustment really matter on an air fork? Thoughts on your sons Bucklos LUTU after this short time. Love your channel BTW.
I'm with you. I don't know how much rebound really matters. Or maybe I'm just not good enough to tell how to use it right. So my sons probably can't tell either. I didn't have any oil to add when I filmed. I plan on adding a little more in the next few days.
The fork lowers are actually made from metal but it's magnesium alloy and it's very soft metal. Not the best material but I haven't broke one yet. They are just prone to stripping
@@samteks125 it’s not the forks anyway, it’s the Rider, Sam Pilgrim bought some forks on Amazon for £160 and there’s a video of it here on you tube.. I think those forks are zoom and they are DH ones.. look for Sam Pilgrim- I bought the cheapest Forks on Amazon. (£160) (he doesn’t mind cheap forks !!!)
I would just apply some light grease, like slick honey. That's what RST uses in some forks instead of bath oil, and they feel very smooth. If the lower legs are not well sealed, the oil will leak out the bottom, and eventually contaminate rotors and brake pads, and that's no fun.
I bought similar fork: ELYON 140 29. Looks identical to Lutu here except QR. I dissasembled mine and spring seems to be based on Suntour Epixon. It has the positive air chamber and 2 coil negative spring. All parts of that spring look very much like Epixons. Even air piston is very similar. Epixon does let you change travel by moving rods though, here you would rather have to add distance rings (rockshox travel spacers fit).
im planing on getting these for my entry mtb as an upgrade since i only have 80mm travel coil forks that are a little scetchy, i do 85% city riding with about 15% of easy\intermidiate xc and flowy single track and so far it has been good for a year but i dont feel super secure on it right now as the forksa have a little play in them i think this could be a nice cheap upgrade. any tips?
I bought the same fork just with gold stanchions I had to return it because as you mentioned the brake posts were machined poorly, my disk brake was rubbing no matter how many adjustments i made. I got a replacement and this time it was a different problem I mounted the brakes and my brake rotor was hitting the cotter pin at the top of my brake calipers. I solved this by putting a washer between the brakes and the brake posts to raise the brakes up a little bit. Other then that I've been using this fork for over a year and i've had no problems with it, it's used for some moderate trail riding and on streets. Also could you add oil to this fork, or do you think it would leak out?
@@lucideuphoria7092 i had shimano brakes and they also have the cup washers but for some reason (I think the posts were too short on the fork) it was still rubbing. Since this post though I've upgraded to a Rockshox fork and shimano XT brakes and haven't had any issue with fitment.
@@NonLegitNation2 yep, I have had the same issue with mine...I have trp spyre calipers and they hit the rotor before adding a washer as well. I ended up adding some float fluid in the air chamber to reduce the volume, adding foam rings and 15wt oil in the lowers. Performs better now but still flexes like a noodle..
@@FrugalFitDad wow I notice the video was two years ago. So that's pretty decent. Still not sure if I want to put my 200 lb body on it LOL, but I do want to lighten my bike add a reasonable cost. You have any other suggestions or videos about other forks?
@@TheCreativeMediaProject that’s fair. I’ve only had my kids on this fork. None of them weigh more than 100lbs. I’d probably but a used rockshox, fox or other name brand before I used it for myself.
@@DunkMasterFlex I had the bucklos air fork for a month, and it held up pretty well. I did upgrade to a recon silver but I would recommend it for beginner budger b
I wouldn’t recommend these. Got exactly these and a stanchion snapped inside the crown on one of the threads that holds the damper in. Fell apart when I was pushing up the hill to the top of some dirt jumps but I would have been screwed if they broke when I was riding
Based on your comment i would not fault the forks for failing but rather you for misusing them for something they where never designed for, these forks are not designed for down hill or any kind of jumps and the warnings on the fork express this, so if you misuse the fork going down hill runs and hitting jumps then they are going to fail, in the same way if you took a road bike over rough root covered ground it would fail eventually
@@EQINOX187 I would agree but I’ve seen bike restoration vids etc where people put these forks on bikes specifically for dh and jumps and they feel great at first. The actual failure came very soon after buying them on my second ride and my first proper ride only a few runs in and they snapped when I was pushing the bike up the hill on some threads that on closer inspection were very low quality threads too
I got 2 and ill tell ya what i think: got the fat bike fork for my framed. Had the local bike shop put it on. Picked it up brought it home held the brake pushed it down pss psss psss seal blown brand new. Back to Amazon replace it. 2nd fork put 90psi in it pushed on it gor 10 count…… 70psi. Put 90psi back in left it in the corner for 4 days……40psi reurn refund This don’t hold air for shit. Totally worthless.
Anyone buying these is in for a shock, no pun intended, they are garbage in fact dangerous garbage. 5 rides and 2 strip downs and I took them off and threw them in the bin. OK the damper lock out seems good but after 1 1hour ride the stiction and play in the bushes is outrageous. Genuinely the worst fork ever made and I go back to the 90s. In the UK they don't have the warning sticker so never ever use these on proper off road. Better still don't buy them just get second hand marzocchi lopro.
Using a Cresent wrench explains alot. Lol you bought a Amazon or ebay fork sir. I pretty sure you don't plan on heading to whistler with it plus it's for a grom. Hey something is better than nothing until it's upgrad time. Lol I'm just happy to see lil groms stoked about riding and learning about mtbs.
I can’t imagine bucklos is a “real” company. The most likely just reverse engineer other products to fit the niche of cheap bike stuff. Like all the other Amazon brands, the probably just pump out cheep designs that they can find.
They are the exact same forks as their high end counterparts down to the last detail. Just made of less quality parts. They will ride just as good as a fork that cost 4 x as much but don't expect them to last as long or be easily serviceable.
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I have a bucklos air fork on my bike. It's been on there for a couple of years now and gotten its share of trails. It's still holding up fine. Worth the money imo.
The stickers are made to be able to be removed if you don’t like them. Also I’ve ridden that very fork on my old bike (I’m 200lbs and 6’3”). I’ve beat the snot out of it on jumps and drops for a solid few months without and trouble. I recently sold my bike to build another and it’s still going strong with the buyer (he’s roughly the same size as me). I think that’s more than what you can ask out of a $136 fork in my opinion. Safe riding!
Ok this comment helped thanks.
Awesome to see you working with your son on the project! Have a good ride.
Bought a Lutu 27.5 as part of an 26er mullet bike experiment several years ago. Over 1000 miles ridden on this fork. Nothing more than XC oriented trails but never a failure. This invovled two different riders weighing in at 130 and 170 lbs. Also, this helped bring aluminum bike to under 30lbs and improved geometry slightly. I can't complain and feel that this is great bang for the buck if you are not a heavy or abusive rider.
Great teardown! Just got these, excited to try them. First impression was positive on my end - no trouble setting brakes up and not a scratch on it despite kinda crappy packaging. I emailed the company with some questions and for maintenance documentation and they got back to me same day. I think they're making an honest attempt at put out a solid product. Time will tell!
Any update?
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 I've got a dozen trouble-free hours so far. No air leak at all, all settings respond well to fine tuning. Definitely clean the stanchions thoroughly every ride. Only thing is I'm not a fast/aggressive rider so I don't know if it could handle a savage pounding.
@@nrgpup77 Thanks! I'm not an aggressive rider.. yet. : )
I put two of these on some electric assist bikes that we ride on asphalt trails and a little light dirt trails... so far they are great. I'm sure that hard mountain biking would reveal their weaknesses, but for what we use them for they are really nice... very smooth ride when combined with a cushy seat and a suspension seatpost.
hey guys i have a 120mm Chinese air fork also and overall I am pretty satisfied with it. it has plastic bushings instead of foam rings which is kinda disappointing but this fork performs pretty well. and I have bottomed out the fork quite a lot and everything is still working well. overall I wouldn't recommend these forks for any downhill or extreme riding but xc and doing jumps on these forks works well. keep in mind I only been using these forks for a month now so I will see if it holds up in the future.
update?
Update pls X2 and what's the brand?
LoL I might get a WBQ 140mm 26’ straight fork
How’s the fork performing after a year of having it?
broo update pls
All forks offered on Amazon, Aliexpress, Alibaba etc are from one manufacturer, they just stick different stickers on the forks ...
9:13...its Aluminium
Even the fox and rockshox? Because there on all of those websites too.. makes since thou....mine aswell save 1,000$ and just get the 100$ forks.👌
@@motov8-garage832 Ofcourse not those only this one
It's magnesium
Magnesium alloy X2 magnesium by itself can react with air, shine like a star and oxidize
Probably a good cheap option for a Gravel bike or commuter. Light and simple.
lets have some trail footage so he can tell us what he thinks of them!
Wolftick did some
I came from Christine's channel. I didn't even know what I was looking at until he partially put it together at around 2 minutes. I'm not from the world of biking. I didn't even know this was a thing 😅
Regarding the lockout, that small amount of movement in the start of the stroke is pretty much cancelled with sag. Just an fyi. I would have loved to have seen the internals of the air spring
Exactly the same as the SR XCR air.
@@searchingshropshire if that's the case then travel could be increased
Stimmt, ist auch eine ähnliche Preisklasse. Die xcr hab ich selber. Hab mir die bucklos auch bestellt. Was ich nicht kapiere, meine unterscheidet sich( was das Design der Bedienelemente und des nur manuellen lockouts betrifft) doch von meiner. Auch steht an der Seite nicht lutu und sie ist 10 bis 15€günstiger. Sind das 2 verschiedene Modelle?
@@dercrosscountryracer1089 Warum nicht gleich ne gebrauchte vernünftige Gabel kaufen? In der Preisklasse bekommt man auch schon mal ne Reba (XC) oder Revelation (Trails) ...
@@samteks125 in der preisklasse bekommt man keine vernünftige luftfedergabel. Gerade roxschox sind richtig teuer, und wenn sie günstig sind, sind sie meist abgerockt. Ausserdem, soo schlecht ist die bucklos gar nicht. Das einzige was ihr fehlt, ist die motion control.
My Bolany fat fork with rebound works about the same as yours. You should lubricate the stanchions to try to get some lubricant in the plastic bushings before installing it on the bike.
The lowers are magnesium, which sorta feels like plastic. It has to be made of metal so the dropouts can handle the clamping force and load of the tire.
Do yours have stiction
I always wondered what the inside of a fork looked like. Now I know. 😊
you've seen what the inside of this fork looks like. The inside of a more expensive fork from Rockshox or Fox looks alot different.
Love the way they just use the adjuster knob from an old model of manitou fork. Someone must have a box of excess of those. Probably the reason it has clicks even though the adjustment in the actual cartridge damper is evidently just an on/off lockout.
I've had these for a year, using them for XC on my hardtail. The Lockout failed after a few Weeks on them but they are still stiff enough for me when pumped up and make my Giant Talon bike so much lighter. They don't feel strong enough for anything other than Road/Path
They are decent forks for the price so long as you use them within the activities designed for, the red oil in the air chamber is not uncommon and is used to help seal and lubricate the piston, the lowers are made fully of magnesium which is incredibly light and lighter than even aluminum and so might feel plastic or cheap but that is usual for a mag lower. As for oil in the lower they are a lot like suntour in that they do not use oil in the lower just grease and even some of the more expensive brands do not use oil
I have these forks and they feel good outside of some stiction
So I assume for street/beach riding these forks are pretty decent. I installed these on 3 of my fat tire ebikes, where they replaced 2 cheap/heavy spring shocks & 1 solid fork, seem okay so far.
This seems like a redesign of an old fox fork like a FIT CTD damper, its likely an old design no longer covered by patent, made with cheap manufacturing, so as long as its not that cheap its prob still a decent fork, if not a little outdated on the damper
On Amzon, one complaint was that you didn't actually get full travel out of the forks. The other was that upon receipt the fork wouldn't hold air.
Fork doesnt hold air because there are no rubber rings stopping the air escaping , just the threads and bolt.
Love the way you explain things Dave!
I bought the 27.5 version last month for 144canadian just insanely cheap. I needed a qr fork for GT idrive 5 parts bike that I built up for city riding with michelin country rock 1.75 tires at 65 psi with 5 inches of suspension is really fun to ride and this working great .I am shocked at how good the fork is for the money. Btw the 27.5 fork have is actually 120mm travel as tested and measured. Thank you for the great video as I was wondering what maintenance it will need and looks like just seals and grease from your video. It replaced an old heavy marzocchi bomber fork that weight over a pound more and had blown nitro piston .
Ok was wondering if it work on my Dirt Jumper. But you reading the yellow label answered my question.
Better look for a used RS Argyle, Manitou Circus Expert or something similar
Hi Dave I follow Christine and I just love your family so I thought I would mosey on over here and start following you ☺️
How much and what brand fork oil did you put in when you found out that there was none in there?
I had a bad experience with a Bucklos Factory 32 140mm fork that I installed on my 26" bike. After about 300km in the city, I noticed that I was losing oil from the rebound screw. No help from Bucklos and I couldn't find anything on TH-cam to solve the problem. The lower air side screw spins in a vacuum and does not want to be removed and does not want to be tightened again.$#%&*(*(%
To help those who wonder how many milliliters and what kind of oil; 5ml / 80W
How did it hold up? Thinking of upgrading my kids giant 24" with it. Great video
I totally agree with your assessment. Your son is probably going to outgrow the bike before you need to replace the fork. Even if you need to replace it, 2 of those cost about the same as an entry level name brand.
I still use my old walmart bike spring fork with no rebound, non lockout; I just spray with lubricant with PTFE because I cannot disassemble and cannot even see what it looks like inside. Steerer tube is even smaller than 1 inch. Cannot replace it with anything.
Bought the 27.5 inch 120mm one for 98 dollars incl. shipping on a sale.
Better than a spring fork😆
These are just rebranded suntour forks with a newer damper. Has the same air spring, seals Nd parts as an xcr air but has a newer damper.
It's crazy how no-one has really noticed this.
They go really well with 15-20wt fork oil in the lowers, some foam rings and better seals.
I'm running extra float fluid in the air chamber to ramp up the progressiveness at the end of the stroke as well as foam rings and 15wt fork oil as lower leg lube. Wolds apart from what it was when received.
These newer style dampers can be had for $30 on eBay and can be retrofitted into any fork...
I've thrown one of these dampers in an old xcm laying here and a dnm fork.
The newer models of this fork have a different casting for the lowers as well as I just got another a few weeks ago. This set of lowers has metal bushings instead of the plastic bushings in the older lowers.
Is there a guide on how to service it in the manner you spoke of? I'm a professional mechanic but I'm new to MTB forks, and would love to learn and optimize it
It 'seems' plenty good enough. Did you add any and what kind of oil to any of the lowers upon reassembly? I am replacing a 2002 Manitou 6 Comp 100mm coil fork. I took it apart for the 1st time ever bc I wanted to be 'responsible'...lol...The plastic access nut on the bottom was seized and I had to drill and easy-out it out. (I hate plastic essential parts). There was not a drop of oil in it. I remember some draining out 15+ years ago when I stored the bike upside down. But I didn't think much drained out and it seemed fine...lol...On teardown 2 weekends ago it had no rusty parts with lots of grease. I am pretty sure I could make some fabrications to put it all back together without it leaking. I am thinking of buying the fork you just covered. I might even go cheaper to a Mercoa $90 air fork that has no rebound adjustment bc I never really had or needed it...lol...I am 5'10" 185 lbs and just do xc and lots of wheelies. Does rebound adjustment really matter on an air fork? Thoughts on your sons Bucklos LUTU after this short time. Love your channel BTW.
I'm with you. I don't know how much rebound really matters. Or maybe I'm just not good enough to tell how to use it right. So my sons probably can't tell either. I didn't have any oil to add when I filmed. I plan on adding a little more in the next few days.
@@FrugalFitDad Thank you.
I wish we could see the air spring chamber
The fork lowers are actually made from metal but it's magnesium alloy and it's very soft metal. Not the best material but I haven't broke one yet. They are just prone to stripping
They’re good forks for the money 💰
No they're not
@@samteks125 it’s not the forks anyway, it’s the Rider, Sam Pilgrim bought some forks on Amazon for £160 and there’s a video of it here on you tube.. I think those forks are zoom and they are DH ones.. look for Sam Pilgrim- I bought the cheapest Forks on Amazon. (£160) (he doesn’t mind cheap forks !!!)
@@benjleath9406 yes but zoom forks different to these ones
Wish I could have tested mine on a jump lockout blew out before I could try
I think they beat the brains out of the name brands at a really honest price.
I just got a nishiki Pueblo and the forks are prob 40 bucks so this might be a decent upgrade
If you want for your older boys you could get the dnm USD 8 dh fork its not crazy expensive and it has 203mm travel.
Did they have foam seals or a place for them? In case you want to convert to oil bath
I didn’t see any.
@rick munoz I'm changing my fox float 32 rings soon so I'll try the used ones on my bucklos fork I just got.
@rick munoz hahaha. Thats my buddy David!!!
I would just apply some light grease, like slick honey. That's what RST uses in some forks instead of bath oil, and they feel very smooth. If the lower legs are not well sealed, the oil will leak out the bottom, and eventually contaminate rotors and brake pads, and that's no fun.
Have you removed the air spring? I'm looking at using a spacer to reduce travel to 80mm.
No I haven’t.
Did you remove the spring? I don't see it in the video. Can it be removed?
I bought similar fork: ELYON 140 29. Looks identical to Lutu here except QR. I dissasembled mine and spring seems to be based on Suntour Epixon. It has the positive air chamber and 2 coil negative spring. All parts of that spring look very much like Epixons. Even air piston is very similar. Epixon does let you change travel by moving rods though, here you would rather have to add distance rings (rockshox travel spacers fit).
Looks like a suntour xc fork... Probably is a suntour now that I think of it..
Did you fit them and pull the front brake?
Can you help me find something
Im 6'1" and 228 and want todo upgrade muy fork
is this the 100mm or 120mm model? you saved me from another day of scanning amazon unable to choose. il take this one as a cheap backup thanks!
100mm
Forks that they call downhill, have the same sticker.
If you treat them right I’m sure they will last plenty of years...
im planing on getting these for my entry mtb as an upgrade since i only have 80mm travel coil forks that are a little scetchy, i do 85% city riding with about 15% of easy\intermidiate xc and flowy single track and so far it has been good for a year but i dont feel super secure on it right now as the forksa have a little play in them i think this could be a nice cheap upgrade. any tips?
I bought the same fork just with gold stanchions I had to return it because as you mentioned the brake posts were machined poorly, my disk brake was rubbing no matter how many adjustments i made. I got a replacement and this time it was a different problem I mounted the brakes and my brake rotor was hitting the cotter pin at the top of my brake calipers. I solved this by putting a washer between the brakes and the brake posts to raise the brakes up a little bit. Other then that I've been using this fork for over a year and i've had no problems with it, it's used for some moderate trail riding and on streets. Also could you add oil to this fork, or do you think it would leak out?
Putting a washer on the brake posts? That's horrible, an absolute no-no...
@@samteks125 it works
Why? SRAM brakes come standard with cup washer sets below and above the caliper.
There's no issue putting a washer underneath the caliper.
@@lucideuphoria7092 i had shimano brakes and they also have the cup washers but for some reason (I think the posts were too short on the fork) it was still rubbing. Since this post though I've upgraded to a Rockshox fork and shimano XT brakes and haven't had any issue with fitment.
@@NonLegitNation2 yep, I have had the same issue with mine...I have trp spyre calipers and they hit the rotor before adding a washer as well.
I ended up adding some float fluid in the air chamber to reduce the volume, adding foam rings and 15wt oil in the lowers. Performs better now but still flexes like a noodle..
How's the fork holding up? Did you toss some oil in both sides?
So far so good. I added a little oil to each side. No complaints.
@@FrugalFitDad Surprised they shipped it bone dry. Maybe they want it to fail quicker?
@@LL-sk3do Even RS ships their forks with too little lubricating oil in them. Incredibly lousy
Can't you get a rock shox recon for not much more?
Yes, but they weren't as cheap a year or two ago as they are today.
Most of the better forks out there have tapered steerer tubes, so you'd have to change out your headset too.
Not just the headset, apart from a few exceptions, you'd need to change to a frame with a tapered headtube.
I knew a guy from back in the 90s that had half of his face ripped off from a shitty dual crown RST fork. Don't skimp on forks folks.
Facts, people love to get forks like this and get confused when it gets absolute destroyed on any trail 😂
You can’t buy 140mm travel forks for straight tube 26’ so…
What size of bike did you put this on? Will it fit a 24” bike. And will it accommodate calliper breaks or just disc? Any info is helpful thanks.
I put it on a size small 27.5. There aren’t any brackets on the fork for rim brakes.
QingSS Mountain Bike Front Fork, Air Suspension MTB 26 27.5 29 Inch 140mm Travel Rebound Adjust Ultra
You dont want any of that plastic coating on the break caliper mounting surface hence the tape.
Hey Cpt. Obv.
It's rather about why they didn't even bother removing that stuff before delivery.
It has "Solo Air" on its label lol
Nice video, although I have the same fork and I can lock it out even more
So how long did the fork last?
Still going strong.
@@FrugalFitDad wow I notice the video was two years ago. So that's pretty decent. Still not sure if I want to put my 200 lb body on it LOL, but I do want to lighten my bike add a reasonable cost. You have any other suggestions or videos about other forks?
@@TheCreativeMediaProject that’s fair. I’ve only had my kids on this fork. None of them weigh more than 100lbs. I’d probably but a used rockshox, fox or other name brand before I used it for myself.
Do you even know what the fork settings do? Or are you just clicking things and going look at that?
He was testing them, I’m sure they set up it properly for him after
Lower forks are magnesium, not plastic...
we have the same fork sir..i've been using for months it is nice good to use 120travel lutu fork.
Is it any good for downhill?
Still doing well?
@@DunkMasterFlex I had the bucklos air fork for a month, and it held up pretty well. I did upgrade to a recon silver but I would recommend it for beginner budger b
I wouldn’t recommend these. Got exactly these and a stanchion snapped inside the crown on one of the threads that holds the damper in. Fell apart when I was pushing up the hill to the top of some dirt jumps but I would have been screwed if they broke when I was riding
Based on your comment i would not fault the forks for failing but rather you for misusing them for something they where never designed for, these forks are not designed for down hill or any kind of jumps and the warnings on the fork express this, so if you misuse the fork going down hill runs and hitting jumps then they are going to fail, in the same way if you took a road bike over rough root covered ground it would fail eventually
@@EQINOX187 I would agree but I’ve seen bike restoration vids etc where people put these forks on bikes specifically for dh and jumps and they feel great at first. The actual failure came very soon after buying them on my second ride and my first proper ride only a few runs in and they snapped when I was pushing the bike up the hill on some threads that on closer inspection were very low quality threads too
would they be good for my ebike i just need a suspension that moves and not stiff for my cheap bike project
5:36 was the best part for me you showed me something I didn't know about the forks, top review lad...
For a $137 thats a great deal. :-)
I like your video
yo they think that with 150$ they will get a fox 32💀
Generally, the camera man should stfu, but here it really works. Keep it up :)
more lighter is better then sr cxt
I got 2 and ill tell ya what i think: got the fat bike fork for my framed. Had the local bike shop put it on. Picked it up brought it home held the brake pushed it down pss psss psss seal blown brand new. Back to Amazon replace it. 2nd fork put 90psi in it pushed on it gor 10 count…… 70psi. Put 90psi back in left it in the corner for 4 days……40psi reurn refund
This don’t hold air for shit. Totally worthless.
Do not use this Wake handlebar .My friends dropped from little drop and IT broke
Can't you afford real wrenches? really crescent wrenches, good way to booger a soft bolt
Anyone buying these is in for a shock, no pun intended, they are garbage in fact dangerous garbage. 5 rides and 2 strip downs and I took them off and threw them in the bin. OK the damper lock out seems good but after 1 1hour ride the stiction and play in the bushes is outrageous. Genuinely the worst fork ever made and I go back to the 90s. In the UK they don't have the warning sticker so never ever use these on proper off road. Better still don't buy them just get second hand marzocchi lopro.
Buck loose..
Using a Cresent wrench explains alot. Lol you bought a Amazon or ebay fork sir. I pretty sure you don't plan on heading to whistler with it plus it's for a grom. Hey something is better than nothing until it's upgrad time. Lol I'm just happy to see lil groms stoked about riding and learning about mtbs.
I can’t imagine bucklos is a “real” company. The most likely just reverse engineer other products to fit the niche of cheap bike stuff. Like all the other Amazon brands, the probably just pump out cheep designs that they can find.
They are the exact same forks as their high end counterparts down to the last detail. Just made of less quality parts. They will ride just as good as a fork that cost 4 x as much but don't expect them to last as long or be easily serviceable.
@@tac6044 Lol did you see the cartridge damper? No way in hell is this fork anywhere as good as even an entry-level fork like RS Recon air. 🤣
Welp ya get what ya pay for I guess
Junk!
I wouldnt let my kid ride those anywhere other than the street
He's put about 60 miles on it in the last 6 weeks.
You can use for leser ride not like jumping downhill only like flat ground downhill