So, if you get too curious and want to go back to stock, these forks are well-supported. First Manitou does sell both the air system and damper units in halves, and all the small components are also available. This is what makes it so easy to travel-adjust, via spacers, but it also has many a home tuner playing with changing the volume of the positive and negative chamber by adding or removing spacers and sometimes trimming bumpers. The fork doesn't self-balance with a transfer port (aka dimple) like a RockShox, Fox, SR Suntour EQ, etc. When inflating the air system you're filling the positive and negative chambers at the same time. I'll warn you it's a bit of a rabbit hole though. For the home mechanic with access to shims, there is plenty of tuning information available with a quick internet search. The good news here is that your Manitou service center or the suspension-happy home mechanic can revalve the shim stack to obtain different performance characteristics. With 18-20% sag I was happy with the existing range of low-speed compression (LSC) and low-speed rebound (LSR) adjustment but I've had feedback from a couple of people riding the R7, one who is much lighter and one who is running significantly more sag, who were asking after more or less compression damping. It made me laugh whenever I was off my bike looking at it. It surprised me with a point-and-shoot character that never had me longing for a lowered Enduro fork instead. It inspired me to drop about six pounds off my single-speed, without any plastic fantastic or other proper weight-weenieisms. And anything else you can ride on a 5" travel fork. It's a lightweight, sub-1700 gram, XC Race fork that's also for dirt jumping.
Manitou tower pro 120mm crack#
What sucked me into wanting to review this fork, and there's not been a fork I've been as excited to review since I had the first crack at the Ohlins RXF 34 in '15/'16, is the marketing. The TPC damper with its foam compensator will be familiar to anyone who's opened a high-end Manitou fork in the last 20 years. The Dorado Air System is well-proven and allows for quick and easy travel and volume adjustments. The R7 has a lot of very long-term Manitou tech: the Reverse Arch lowers, Hex-Lock axle, and extensive crown-stanchion overlap create a stiff chassis.
Manitou tower pro 120mm pro#
The 80-120mm adjustable, 32mm stanchion-equipped, Manitou R7 Pro is clearly something very different. I have a lot of examples from my history of bike ownership. A 170mm SR Suntour Durolux dropper to 120mm. With all that in mind, my typical 120-140mm fork has long been something longer travel that I've lowered. I'm not particularly smooth on a bike, and I'm a fan of looking at 'stiffness' as a system from my wheels, to my frame, to my fork, and my bar and stem. Now I'm sitting somewhere around 185lbs in my birthday suit. But generally, I'd wager a lot of riders, even locally on the North Shore, are over-biked for their best trail experience. Usually when I'm properly sucking on some nasty downhill trail. Absolutely, there are times that I'm mentally committed to the idea that some imaginary next bike will be from the current generation of all-the-travel pedalable DH bikes like the Enduro or Nomad. I love a great ride (almost) anywhere, ride (almost) anything 5" trail bike.
Call it a 120-140mm range of travel, maybe 150mm for the front with a cheeky bit of over-forking.
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