RockShox Lyrik RC2

£989 Performance worth forking out for

The latest top-end Lyrik offers plenty of adjustment as well as a snazzy red paint job. Inside sits the new ‘DebonAir’ spring, which boasts more negative volume than the previous iteration, in a bid to make it suppler at the start of the stroke with support building gradually as the fork moves through its travel. There’s also the new ‘RC2’ damper, which offers external rebound and low and high-speed compression damping adjustment. If that wasn’t enough, there’s also a choice of crown offsets – 37mm or 46mm on the 650b-compatible Lyrik and 42mm or 51mm on the 29er version. The 35mm chassis remains the same though. Most folk will be catered for, with the RC2 coming in 150 to 180mm-travel options in both 650b and 29in guises. www.zyrofisher.co.uk