Suntour's Swing Shock is a swing-arm suspension fork that is clean-looking enough to put on a fixed-gear bike, however fancy it might be. The fork comes in two parts. The alloy top section is joined to the lower, magnesium forks by a pivot that juts out behind the fork, just under the down-tube. A piston and coil-spring sit vertically between these two parts and give 30mm, or just over an inch of travel to soak up cobblestones, curbs and small potholes.
The straight fork has an ingeniously simple design that doesn't look out of place on an otherwise stripped down bike. The one you see here has mounts for a disk-brake, but you can also opt for V-brake/cantilever bosses.
Normally I'm not a fan of suspension, except where it's needed: on mountain bikes. I prefer the mechanical simplicity of slightly fatter tires at lower pressure, and a sprung saddle because there's less to go wrong. This Suntour fork, though, looks simple enough and pretty enough to consider.
The forks are up on the Suntour site right now, but pricing and dealer availability details are not.
Suntour Swing Shock [Suntour via Bicycle Design]
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