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ÖHLINS RFX34 M.2 DOWNCOUNTRY FORK £1,185

hink Öhlins and you’ll probably picture Loic Bruni or Finn Iles coming across the finish line at a World Cup. Or perhaps a burly 38mmstanchioned enduro fork, or the yellow flash from a coil shock. But this is actually where it all started for Öhlins, at least on the mtb scene – when the Swedish brand released the RXF 34 back in 2016 it was the first time it had built a suspension fork from the ground up. And it impressed us with

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