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Anyone running one of these on an MX bike? I seem to remember RC running one on the RM250.
I have never ridden a bike that handled as well as the Stealth Pro.
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Notice the safety wired grip and Boyesen Shok Out. Shok Out really helped my left wrist. ARC levers and perches from my friend and fellow racer Bob Barnett. Bob AKA BBQ Bob and I used to have some great battles back in the day.
Correcting myself now, 2009 they were on Star Racing's bikes but I forgot about Gavin Gracyk running one in either 2007 or 2008?
The man's a genius, and a great bloke. I've been meaning to contact him, visit him, but it's a long time between contact.
Know / knew Neezer, as, up til 2006 I did Fox suspension in OZ, but got ripped off by people I worked with. I also worked with Fox during the seventies / at the first OZ distributors, Competition Development, owned by Steve and Jan Meadows, Americans from The Bay Area - Steve was a Bultaco enthustiast ( I think I still may have some Bay Area Bultaco stickers I got from him) . It was the start of my MC, Bicycle, Suspension career, though, I was already making Bicycle frames - I turned up at some of the earliest BMX races in OZ in the 70s, and kicked the hell out of their riders they had on Mongooses...... They got me onto them, and then me making bike frames for them.
I'd like to try an RC3, on my PDS'd CRE500. Been meaning to 'bother 'Neezer for a while now, but not having talked to him in a long time, it might be a bit presumptive. I'd like to compare it to the TTX I use.
The work I do in Europe and the US now, stems from contacts I made at Fox (and other companies over the years) but Not with Fox, directly.
It's a small World, isn't it, Rock?
Here is what Neezer replied with a week ago. Sorry for the delay but I've been WFO but finally had time so here you go:
RC went down to Costa Rica for a Suzuki Distributor event. The Suzuki Distributor is a FOX SHOX distributor. They asked me for best guess specs for the shock and fork… just sent the spec sheet down to them and they installed it for Ricky.
Ricky advised the Distributor that he could not allow photos of him on the bike with the FOX decals because of his relationship with SHOWA. So they pull the FOX decals of the fork and rear shock and replaced them with Showa Decals.
I did get some feedback…. He was impressed for just putting on a foreign suspension set and it was acceptable for sure…. He advised for a race set it would need to go firmer. Well at least he did not think it was crappy!
Click here to see video… Stop frame at 3:11 and you will see the FOX RC3 shock with a SHOWA sticker on it.
Cheers,
Neezer
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