Bucklos / Lutu Air Fork Tear Down | What's inside?

This week we bought a $136 Bucklos, Lutu 32 air fork with a straight steerer tube. Watch us take the fork apart and inspect what's really on the inside of this budget fork.

[andrewb]

I have a bucklos air fork on my bike. It's been on there for a couple of years now and gotten its share of trails. It's still holding up fine. Worth the money imo.

[nrgpup]

Great teardown! Just got these, excited to try them. First impression was positive on my end - no trouble setting brakes up and not a scratch on it despite kinda crappy packaging. I emailed the company with some questions and for maintenance documentation and they got back to me same day. I think they're making an honest attempt at put out a solid product. Time will tell!

[thriftyamerican]

Awesome to see you working with your son on the project! Have a good ride.

[nickcummings]

The stickers are made to be able to be removed if you don’t like them. Also I’ve ridden that very fork on my old bike (I’m 200lbs and 6’3”). I’ve beat the snot out of it on jumps and drops for a solid few months without and trouble. I recently sold my bike to build another and it’s still going strong with the buyer (he’s roughly the same size as me). I think that’s more than what you can ask out of a $136 fork in my opinion. Safe riding!

[jamesmcmillan]

Bought a Lutu 27.5 as part of an 26er mullet bike experiment several years ago. Over 1000 miles ridden on this fork. Nothing more than XC oriented trails but never a failure. This invovled two different riders weighing in at 130 and 170 lbs. Also, this helped bring aluminum bike to under 30lbs and improved geometry slightly. I can't complain and feel that this is great bang for the buck if you are not a heavy or abusive rider.

[GK-uddv]

I put two of these on some electric assist bikes that we ride on asphalt trails and a little light dirt trails... so far they are great. I'm sure that hard mountain biking would reveal their weaknesses, but for what we use them for they are really nice... very smooth ride when combined with a cushy seat and a suspension seatpost.

[TheHabstrick]

Probably a good cheap option for a Gravel bike or commuter. Light and simple.

[emausderratsuchende]

All forks offered on Amazon, Aliexpress, Alibaba etc are from one manufacturer, they just stick different stickers on the forks ...
9:13...its Aluminium

[Mgarage]

hey guys i have a 120mm Chinese air fork also and overall I am pretty satisfied with it. it has plastic bushings instead of foam rings which is kinda disappointing but this fork performs pretty well. and I have bottomed out the fork quite a lot and everything is still working well. overall I wouldn't recommend these forks for any downhill or extreme riding but xc and doing jumps on these forks works well. keep in mind I only been using these forks for a month now so I will see if it holds up in the future.

[DontAskHowIGotIt]

lets have some trail footage so he can tell us what he thinks of them!

[YasuTaniina]

I came from Christine's channel. I didn't even know what I was looking at until he partially put it together at around 2 minutes. I'm not from the world of biking. I didn't even know this was a thing 😅

[RCPILOT]

I always wondered what the inside of a fork looked like. Now I know. 😊

[BFBMTb]

Regarding the lockout, that small amount of movement in the start of the stroke is pretty much cancelled with sag. Just an fyi. I would have loved to have seen the internals of the air spring

[timp]

Love the way they just use the adjuster knob from an old model of manitou fork. Someone must have a box of excess of those. Probably the reason it has clicks even though the adjustment in the actual cartridge damper is evidently just an on/off lockout.

[dbfcrell]

My Bolany fat fork with rebound works about the same as yours. You should lubricate the stanchions to try to get some lubricant in the plastic bushings before installing it on the bike.

The lowers are magnesium, which sorta feels like plastic. It has to be made of metal so the dropouts can handle the clamping force and load of the tire.

[DJhunta]

Ok was wondering if it work on my Dirt Jumper. But you reading the yellow label answered my question.

[Hazelee]

Hi Dave I follow Christine and I just love your family so I thought I would mosey on over here and start following you ☺️

[ROBOKK]

I've had these for a year, using them for XC on my hardtail. The Lockout failed after a few Weeks on them but they are still stiff enough for me when pumped up and make my Giant Talon bike so much lighter. They don't feel strong enough for anything other than Road/Path

[Corder]

How much and what brand fork oil did you put in when you found out that there was none in there?

[steverx]

On Amzon, one complaint was that you didn't actually get full travel out of the forks. The other was that upon receipt the fork wouldn't hold air.