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Magura TS8 DLO 100 29in fork


Magura's short travel forks always impress and the TS8 is no exception if you're more concerned about stiffness than weight.

The most distinctive feature of Magura's forks has always been the double front and rear sculpted blade arch design. This does an impressive job of stiffening up steering behaviour on QR forks and with the screw-in 15mm axle the 32mm stanchions feel more like 34s even in 120mm travel format. You can use a RockShox Maxle axle or Magura's own Torx secured shaft with its T25 wrench that plugs into the open axle end but it's 180mm or larger rotor only.

Magura's Fork Meister Concept has added new seals and bushings to the proven chassis for a smooth feel from the box. It's well supported through the mid stroke, so full travel use is appropriate rather than excessive even in fully open mode.

The structural stiffness helps keep it supple under high braking or cornering loads so while it's heavy in race terms you can be really aggressive with your overtaking lines on the TS8. The remote lever for the DLO damping control is also much neater and easier to use than previously.

Add solidly reliable long-term performance under aggressive riders and it's an impressively competent, tight tracking short travel trail fork. We'll be plugging in the unique gradient sensing Elect electrically actuated damper (420$ upgrade) for testing next too, so keep watching these pages to see how that pans out.

Travel 100mm (80 and 120mm available)
Wheel size 29in (26in and 650b available)
Weight 1720g

PRICE 1150$


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