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RockShox Pike RCT Forks review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £549.99 on RockShox Pike RCT Forks, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s RockShox Pike RCT Forks review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.9/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 218 products in the Forks category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

9.4

Price

8.7

Reviews

8.7

Overall

8.9

 

RockShox Pike RCT Forks reviews

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RockShox Pike RCT Forks Specification

RockShox Pike RCT Forks specs

RockShox Pike RCT Forks
Feature 1

Material: Crown: Forged, Hollow 7050 Aluminium; Upper Tubes: 35mm Tapered Wall Aluminium; Lower Tubes: Magnesium, 15x110mm Boost, disc only; Crown Race: Forged, Pocketed Aluminium

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Spring Type: DebonAir, friction reducing spring

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Damper Type: Charger 2 RC2

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

External Adjustments: External rebound, low-speed compression, 3 position compression (open/pedal/firm)

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

Brake Type: Post Mount 160mm with 220mm maximum rotor size

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 6

Suitability: Trail, Enduro

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 7

Wheel Compatibility: 27.5″, 29″

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Feature 8

Dropout Size: 15mm

Other Forks found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Diffusion Black

Other Forks found with this spec: 1

Spec 2

Size: 140mm, 130mm, 120mm, 150mm, 160mm

Other Forks found with this spec: 1

Spec 3

Wheel Size: 29″, 27.5″ (650b)

Other Forks found with this spec: 1

Spec 4

Option: 51mm Offset – OneLoc, 46mm Offset – OneLoc

Other Forks found with this spec: 1

Spec 5

Steerer Diameter: 1.1/8″ – 1.5″ Tapered

Other Forks found with this spec: 1

Spec 6

Fork Travel: 140mm, 130mm, 120mm, 150mm, 160mm

Other Forks found with this spec: 1

Price

£549.99

Number of Reviews
Review Score

/ 5

Average score in category: 4.6

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  • RockShox Pike RCT Forks – Boost. RockShox’s Pike RCT forks have been at the forefront of Trail and Enduro riding for quite some time and looking to keep them as the go-to suspension set-up in those fields, they have enhanced the performance, dependability and control on this latest model, maintaining their supreme fork manufacturer status Exceptional Performance and Super-Reliable Suspension Forks. Built with improved tyre clearance, higher steering precision and a lower weight, this rejuvenated RCT fork features improvement son the inside as well as the outside. A high travelling DebonAir spring gives better control while the Charger 2 damper utilises wide-ranging compression adjustments when travelling at low-speeds, adapting to the conditions and terrains under-wheel to let you travel as smoothly or aggressively as your riding style warrants. This latest version is also kitted out with a Rapid Recovery System, letting your front wheel stay on terra firma with higher accuracy when riding over a quick succession of bumps for an ultimately smooth and steady ride on any terrain. The Boost aspect of this newer build enhances compatibility with larger wheels favoured by Enduro and Trails riders, allowing for wider hubs to be used and greater tyre clearance to be achieved. By making these tweaks and additions, RockShox has undoubtedly tightened the Pike’s hold on trail fork dominance Features: ¬†Material: Crown: Forged, Hollow 7050 Aluminium; Upper Tubes: 35mm Tapered Wall Aluminium; Lower Tubes: Magnesium, 15x110mm Boost, disc only; Crown Race: Forged, Pocketed Aluminium ¬†Spring Type: DebonAir, friction reducing spring ¬†Damper Type: Charger 2 RC2 ¬†External Adjustments: External rebound, low-speed compression, 3 position compression (open/pedal/firm) ¬†Brake Type:¬†Post Mount 160mm with 220mm maximum rotor size ¬†Suitability:¬†Trail, Enduro ¬†Wheel Compatibility:¬†27 5″, 29″ ¬†Dropout Size:¬†15mmBuy¬†RockShox Components¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
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No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Forks.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s RockShox Pike RCT Forks or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 218 different products in the Forks category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 92 products from RockShox (although only 75 of the 92 are in the Forks category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Forks. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of RockShox Pike RCT Forks and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from RockShox. Below we’re going to get into the detail of RockShox Pike RCT Forks to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Forks. There are 218 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 218, the average price is £316.76. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £0.99 and most expensive was £1599.95.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: RockShox. The average price was £457.95 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £9.99 up to £1516.49 with RockShox products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of RockShox products that appear specifically in the Forks category. So you can see that the price of RockShox Pike RCT Forks at £549.99 is great value considering the average price of RockShox Forks is £515.48 and the price varies from £10.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find RockShox Pike RCT Forks during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £549.99 which represents a £378.50 or 41% saving against RRP. If you think RockShox Pike RCT Forks ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

RockShox Pike RCT Forks Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Forks too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good RockShox Pike RCT Forks is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find reviews scoring it out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by RockShox. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Forks category is 4.6 and the average score of products from RockShox is 4.5 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from RockShox in the Forks category the average review score is 4.6.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give RockShox Pike RCT Forks such a high overall score of 8.9 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are reviews for RockShox Pike RCT Forks which score it , so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy RockShox Pike RCT Forks or in fact any of the other Forks, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.