- Unique down country fork
- Optimized crown and dropout design to reduce weight and friction
- Designed, engineered & tested in Freiburg / Germany
- Assembled 100% in-house and by hand – One at a time
Price: 1.649 Euro (incl. VAT) excl. RS Charger RD
The Intend Samurai XC is our latest down country solution for riders who want an even lighter and cleaner front. Thanks to an updated crown design the size and weight of the dropouts have been reduced significantly. Apart from saving weight and looking clean and minimalistic this measure also reduces friction on the bushings due to a lesser amount of leverage, resulting in smooth performance and naturally less wear and tear. Ultimately this means you're getting a a product which simply works, encouraging you to ride more and worry less.
With only 1515g, the Samurai XC fork weighs in about 150 grams lighter than our Hero RD, which would be the next choice in the Intend line-up. For this fork we are utilizing the infamous Rock Shox Charger Raceday cartridge, which is an incredible, lightweight engineered piece of art.
How does the procedure for the Samurai XC look like?
For EU customers:
1. You acquire the RS cartridge at the dealer of your choice.
2. You send this cartridge to us, we assemble the fork into a finished product and ship it to you!
For non-EU customers:
1. You acquire the RS cartridge at the dealer of your choice, let the cartridge ship to YOUR place
2. You order a fork from us without cartridge and make the installation of the cartridge yourself. Tools you need are: 24mm socket and 4mm allen wrench.
Why? - If you order a cartridge in Germany, and we ship it out of EU, we would be responsible for possible warranty cases for the cartridge, because we are the one sending it out of EU. And we cannot fullfill responsibility for others components.
Here are the details for the RS cartridge:
Raceday 2:
The Raceday 2 cartridge is the updated version and should work just as well as the old one but more reliable and 12g heavier.
RS number of the version without remote 2-position: 00.4318.086.002
RS number of the version without remote 3-position: 00.4318.087.002
RS number of the version with remote 2-position: 00.4318.086.003
RS number of the version with remote 3-position: 00.4318.087.003
Old Version:
RS number of the version without remote is: 00.4020.546.002
RS number of the version with remote is: 00.4020.546.003
Description
Travel adjustment & suspension fluid change
Installation guide volume spacer
Intend Air Spring & Damping assembly
This hoses are not 100% compatible to USD forks. they are weak and easy to bend. As the hose at a USD fork needs to slide through the upper guides, the use of steel braided hoses causes problems. That is why I recommend normal brake hoses, they work for 100%
20mm axles vary by weight and wall-thickness.
20mm Light 75g (recommended also for regular enduro use)
20mm Heavy 150g (recommended for hard/extreme heavy riders)
This option is not available.
Edge, Flash and Infinity forks until end of 2021 share the same dropouts. You can choose between 180mm boost and non-boost, as well as 203mm boost and non-boost.
Dropouts used on Hero as well as Edge, Flash, Bandit from 2022 are different and compatible with PM180 and PM203, both only in Boost.
This option is not available. You can simply use normal brake adapters to make that combination work.
Yes! You can put any 223mm rotor on Edge, Flash, Bandit and Infinity forks.
Intend Samurai CC, XC and GR are only possible up to 203mm.
This is not possible any more since beginning of 2022. You can either buy a 20mm dropout or a 15mm dropout.
Only on our Infinity forks, you can use 110×20 non-boost hubs, combined with the correct non-boost brake mount. 100x15mm hubs are possible with Boost-spacers.
This option is not available.
Yes! You can easily adjust the stroke by adding or removing 10mm spacers.
Yes! By exactly 10mm.
This option is not available.
You can have any color as long as it is black anodized. We do not offer any other colors. Only black.
Color options other than black anodized are not available. The reason is, that anodizing in not-black causes so much troubles, that we cannot guarantuee a problem-free, nice looking product trough the whole range. When we sell products, we want to do it perfect, and need to skip all variations which are not “perfect”.
All our forks are compatible with torque caps, except the Samurai models, due to the minimalistic dropouts.