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$
