When you are charging downhill, plowing through rock gardens, skipping over braking bumps in berms, and deciphering lines on the fly—around or over—there’s one part of your fork that keeps your hands from flying off the handlebars—the damper. Responsible for adding compression damping and more control to the fork, in both repetitive small bumps and big hits, your damper controls how your bike responds to terrain as well as your input and feedback.
Bringing a fresh set of eyes and years of experience designing rear shocks, RockShox Senior Design Engineer Tim Lynch was given a blank sheet of paper to design a brand-new damper for the 2023 Fork Lineup. Most familiar with an Internal Floating Piston (IFP) damper design, Lynch decided to take what he knew from the rear shock world and merge it with the internals of forks to revolutionize damper tunability.
The end result? Charger 3—a damper designed to tune the exact combination of settings for your ride style and the trail you’re on, without sacrifice or hesitation.
