(Text by BOS) Many people were expecting an upside-down fork from BOS because of Nicolas Vouilloz’s factory V Process fork. To be honest, we did give it a lot of thought. If marketing was the main priority, we would have gone for upside-down, no question ... but what we wanted most of all was to produce a fork that was right for today’s downhill, and was affordable for amateur riders.

The BOS upside-down forks exists … but only on paper. To produce it meant some compromises which would be too inconvenient for the user. In order to achieve the stiffness we wanted, it would have needed a special hub with all the implications for riders (special wheels, incompatibility with current standards, extra cost). In the end, an upside-down fork would have been too expensive and we didn’t want to ruin our entry to the downhill fork market. On the plus side, the conventional fork allowed us to keep within industry standards, as well as producing great performance at a reasonable price.

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