the hub
Having grown up following motorcycle racing very closely, including racing them myself, I’ve always had admiration for brands that deliver excellent products to the highest performing machines and athletes in the world, yet don’t gate keep. Brands that allow themselves to find their place in the market for common consumers while staying true to their core. Which, in Ohlins case is knowledge, quality and race pedigree.
Recently Ohlins’ focus has broadened from gravity racing to the highly competitive, high performance, demanding world of World Cup XC racing, which has evolved to incorporate more technical (and high-consequence) downhill segments.
The Ohlins RX34 and RX34 M2 are good trail forks, Although Ohlins might be aiming at too much of a niche market by calling the RX34 M2 a down-country fork. Although lighter than the RX34, it still didn’t have the pedigree to compete with the likes of the Fox 34 SC when it came to outright XC performance.
Ohlins recognised that to understand XC, they had to
