On a scale of one to ten, how much of a do-it-yourselfer are you? Burnt-out lightbulbs and hanging picture frames are the limits for some of us, whereas others are happy to DIY their way through just about anything short of a shuttle launch. Back in 2018, we saw Jean-François Boivin’s homemade carbon downhill bike that used a gearbox and a stanchion tube from a Fox 40 for its rear shock, as well as Vladimir Yordanov’s dual-link carbon downhill bike.
Next up in the DIY Hall of Fame is Ashley Kalym with his 160mm-travel single-sided, carbon fiber linkage fork.
Most modern suspension forks all follow the same basic principles: Two stanchion tubes sliding on bushings, a set of lowers held together by an arch and axle, and there’s probably some type of spring in one leg and some type of damper in the other. That layout has worked really well for two or three decades now, depending on how you define ‘really well,’ and it’s the recipe used by most of the traditional suspension manufacturers out there.
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