36 – The Apex of All-Mountain
This evolution of the FOX 36 impresses with superior performance for all-mountain biking and offers the perfect balance of stiffness, control and smooth suspension travel. The 36 offers enduro feeling with increased steering precision and buttery smooth suspension, but without additional weight.
What's new? The Fox 36 has a revised housing with an optimized fork bridge. The new design provides 20% more stiffness than its predecessor. The Fox 36 thus almost reaches the level of the larger Fox 38, but without the extra weight. The FLOAT suspension has also been updated. The FLOAT Glidecore Air Spring allows the suspension to yield under heavy lateral loads and thus reduces the resulting friction. In practice, this means constant, low-friction compression, even on the toughest trails. The distance between the bushings has been increased by 30mm to make the riding experience even smoother on small bumps and at high speed. In addition, the mount for post-mount brake disks has been increased to 200mm.
As a representative of the Performance series, the fork equipped with the tried-and-tested FLOAT air suspension has black anodized top tubes made from 7000 series aluminium. On the technical side, the reliable GRIP damping ensures an excellent riding experience. While the shape of the bridge and fork legs skillfully increases strength with minimal use of material, the dip tubes impress with clever detail solutions. Both the "Bypass" channels and the special bleed valves (retrofittable) are dedicated to pressure regulation in order to exploit the maximum suspension travel potential on the one hand and to optimize the response of the fork on the other.
Technical details of the FOX 36 suspension fork
- Series: Performance
- Suspension: FLOAT EVOL
- Damping: GRIP
- Low Speed Compression (LSC): 3 positions (Open, Medium, Firm)
- Rebound Low Speed (LSR): 10 clicks
- Fork steerer: 1 1/8" - 1 1/2" diameter (Tapered)
- stanchions: 36 mm diameter, anodized
- Installation dimension: 15 x 110 mm Boost (QR thru axle)
Glidecore Air Spring | The Glidecore Air Spring has a piston rod with elastomer bearings. This allows it to move independently of the air piston, especially when the fork is bent. This helps to reduce the friction of the air piston in such situations. The result? A smoother suspension experience.
GRIP | To achieve maximum performance, the GRIP damper not only features the same spring-assisted and internally floating piston of the higher-end models, but also an updated pressure equalization function. Specially developed openings in the upper area also allow excess oil to be drained, which increases durability and ensures consistent damping.
Arch Against | The 36 SL triple clamp, optimized by FOX engineers, wraps around the lower part of the fork and contributes to a 20% increase in torsional stiffness over the previous trail fork, the 34. Cut-outs at strategic points help to minimize weight.
Lower Leg Bypass Channels | Air pressure increases during compression, which can result in the fork not reaching its full travel. Channels in the dip tubes solve this problem by significantly increasing the air volume. This not only reduces the occurrence of unwanted pressure increases, but also allows the oil to circulate to the upper areas of the dip tubes, keeping the inner seals and bushings lubricated at all times.
