The FOX 38 is out, and now all your forks look skinny! However, the new FOX FLOAT 38 suspension fork is far more than a fat FOX 36. We dive inside the new fork to take a closer look.
The development of the new FOX 38 was perhaps one of the world’s worst kept secrets, the distinctive bleed valves and round crown have already been well publicised in spy shots, used by racers in prototype form on the front line of last year’s EWS. However, In terms of new products, it’s fair to say that FOX has been pretty quiet over the last two years, with no major overhauls since they released their GRIP2 damper. With the new FOX 38 (and the new 2021 FOX 36, DHX2 and X2 shocks) it appears that FOX has been putting that engineering break to good use, with some major overhauls. FOX have now ‘downgraded’ their 36 chassis to an ‘all-mountain’ fork (in shorter 150-160 mm travel options) and are introducing the FOX 38 for all enduro and ‘heavy-duty’ eMTB duties, in fact everything between 160 – 180 mm of travel. Bigger, stiffer and with new internals, the FOX 38 FLOAT is now the brand’s big-hitter single clamp.
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