So, to investigate further I reached out to representatives from the major suspension manufacturers and tuning companies. Nevertheless, it seems clear that a significant number of Pinkbike users have had creaking fork issues.
There weren't any especially notable outliers from the trend no one brand has a wildly high number of creaking forks relative to the number of forks they sell, and no brand seems immune to creaking either. Also, as was pointed-out in the comments several times, it is possible that in many cases creaking headset, stem or axles have been misdiagnosed as creaking crown.ĭigging into the data from both polls, my big-picture takeaway is that the number of reported creaking CSUs for each brand was very strongly correlated with their popularity among our audience. It's worth bearing in mind that the Pinkbike audience in general doesn't necessarily represent the wider MTB market - if you're checking the homepage everyday you're probably more into mountain biking than the average rider.
So we ran a follow up poll which provided more context by asking how many forks PB users have owned in total, and from which brands.
But even with a shovelful of salt and the knowledge that there's a ton of participation bias (you're more likely to respond to a poll about creaky CSUs if you've had a creaky CSU), we were surprised at the large number of people who said they'd owned at least one fork that started creaking at the CSU. We view our tech polls as a useful yet limited source of information.
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