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The recirculating damper is designed to ingest lubricatingdamping oil when the fork bottoms out, and then purge it out the top later.

All forks were tested back-to-back on the same tracks, keeping all other variables as consistent as possible to ensure our findings are as reliable and accurate as they can be.

With three volume spacers fitted, it rarely bottomed-out as the spring force ramps up towards the end.

So, hand pain was impressively manageable on long descents, particularly those with lots of square-edge hits.

The stiff chassis tracks well when pushed hard into blown-out berms and big holes too.

Since getting hooked on mountain bikes aged thirteen riding a tiny 24Seven Crosser, hes raced downhill, enduro and cross country, and while no athlete, still enters the occasional race.

Seb studied experimental physics at university, and hes now happily using (wasting) his degree experimenting with different bike setups, trying to work out what works best and why.

Youll often find him riding the same track ten times in a day, changing just one thing to pin down the differences.

Sebs much happier back-to-back testing suspension on a wet Welsh hillside than riding the latest five-figure bikes on some sunny press trip - although he quite likes that too.

Marzocchi Suspension