I BOUGHT 4 OF THE CHEAPEST MTB FORKS ON ALIEXPRESS DANGER ALERT

I bought four of the cheapest suspension forks I could find on AliExpress, and today we're gonna be testing all of them on my mountain bikes to see how long they're gonna last, starting with the pair that cost only 17 pounds. We're gonna start things off with the 17 pound fork in this epic riding spot, loads of things to jib and do tricks on, but first off, we gotta fit them. After a quick maintenance session by the van, we took out the old forks, switch to these cheapy specials, and now we're left with the Canyon Stitch 360, looking like that with these white forks on. They're actually so scary, there's no rebound damper. Oh, we got a lock out though. They're fully rigid now. From this, we know we can actually at least ride from A to B with a fork that cheap, but can it be tricked? First maneuver. Yes, they can bar. There's a bit of weird movement and stuff in it, but not really gonna complain for that cheap. Let's get a tuck and a hander out of it. There we go, tuck and a hander worked. I like them. 180. How are they feeling? We've still got them in locked out mode. There's some odd sort of, look at that flex. It's not that nice, is it? I'm now gonna jump this strange volcano into a big table air on that quarter pipe. Over the proper volcano. Boom. Nice. Ooh, there's a jump box here. It'd be rude not to try and flip the cheapest forks in the world, wouldn't it? Oh, it's so scary. You've just gotta do it, really, haven't you? It's such an aggressive landing and steep lip, and obviously without them forks, you'd just be so much to be done, but it adds a whole element of excitement knowing that you might die any second. Oh, so smooth. Actually, nice landing. Bit back wheel to take out the force on the forks. Yes. So you can actually do bangers on cheap forks. Right, let's push the limits. Flip no hander with these forks. Slow motion. Yes, flip no hander on the cheapies. Let's do some more technical maneuvers just to see what sort of flex we can get out of the forks. So this trick here is one of the worst you can do for a fork, because it pushes them outwards. Let's see if we can get a bar disaster. Wow. Let's get a bar disaster 180 in then. That bent them a bit. Oh my God, it did bend them. No way. There we go then. First fork is done for. I can't believe it. It's already just completely destroyed it. So if I jump again, I think they'll snap in my face, which I definitely don't wanna play with. We've now come to the next location and the next fork. These are 51 pounds and they're full carbon. I think that's a pretty bad idea. That is so cheap for a carbon fork. So we're gonna get them fitted and ride down that. Huge stair set of doom that starts there and ends all the way down there in the road where the fork's probably gonna snap. Come on. A bit of work later and we have the new forks fitted. Look at them. They actually look incredible, but I can't help but think about the fact that they're 50 quid from AliExpress and they're carbon fibre and they literally move. I don't even wanna look at it. Come on, let's get to the top and try and survive to the bottom. Oh, here we go. We're not gonna go fast at all. Oh, that's scary. Oh, wow. Oh, good for rigid. Bit of a cracking sound then. Yes. Fully rigid stairs is the best. Oh, oh, survived that bit. Right, so this is the next section. Rigid one brake. Horrible fork. Yes. Ah, survived it. Pumped. That was terrifying. That's a good set that you could have hit that so fast on a normal mountain bike, but just waiting for them to go back because they're not gonna crack, are they? They're just literally gonna snap directly in my face. Wow. We've now come to this pump track here. It's not gonna get much crazier than that. I really don't trust these forks and I don't wanna face plant going flat out, but I'm sure we can do a few maneuvers. So let's just start off with a blast. Well, they actually feel well good on the pump track. Still a bit nervous that they're gonna break at any moment. Oh, let's get a Manny challenge actually on there. I'll pull up here. Wow. Oh, the carbon forks are so light. Actually feels sick to Manny. We've gotta do a trick. Let's try and get a bar spin out of this berm. This is it. Terrifying moment. Oh, wow. Bar spin on the carbon fork. I really don't know how trustworthy they are. Let's just do one more little thing with them and we gotta get rid of them. Final banger for these forks and I'm gonna admit defeat with them. I don't wanna push the limits. If they're like aluminum or something, you can see when they're gonna break, but yeah, let's just get the finale banger lawnmower on that coping there. Wow. That was proper, proper lawny in the situation. Okay, that's enough of them carbon forks. They're way too scary. Let's move on to the next pair. The next fork we're onto cost 55 pounds. These are the Nanilo X7 Pro 32s. I've noticed a lot of the AliExpress forks have copied Fox and put 32, 36, whatever they want on there to make it look similar to theirs. We got the same style of cross brace there as the Fox fork. Is it gonna be as good as the Fox? I don't know. Let's get it fitted and find out. After a bit of maintenance, we've got the Nanilo 32s fitted. Looking pretty good on the Canyon Stitch 360. I'll put some air in there and we've got it locked out. They're not fully locked out, but they are running quite stiff. Let's see how these 55 pound beasts are gonna react on this little step up. First jump. Yes, one for X up. All I can feel so far that's weird is like the aggressive top out on them. Oh, there is a thing to change at the bottom. These could be the best forks on earth. I wonder if that's actually... Wow, it works. No way. Usually it doesn't work on these cheapies. They're incredible. Let's bar this step up. Cool, bars work. Let's see if 360s work with them. Yes, 360 with the 55 quiddas. Well, that works epic. Should we head further down and see what other stuff we can find? Whoa, sick section. Just found this huge gap here. This should be nice and scary. I'm still like everything I've done up to now, I've been like landing like smoothly. This has got quite a flat landing on it. And there's a big double before it as well. I'm just going to like race it and just try to survive it. Let's see what happens. Try and keep it smooth. That lip's so destroyed actually. Let's see if we can find something else to flip because that wouldn't be the best option. Just down a bit on this trail, there's a way smaller one. And same issue with the lip, except if I take off to the side, the lip's pretty smooth. That was scary. There's light spots everywhere, which is the worst thing about riding in the woods when it's sunny. You like get blinded off the lip. That was just a, I could have just worn a blindfold the whole way around that flip there. But my body knew where it was and we landed with the cheapies. We've come to a skate park to test these forks out. Let's go double danger. Cheap forks, no shim pads, tail whip. That was a proper cleany bolts one, weren't it? What about a footy? FJ Dubbingston on here. Let me get a three tap over that, it'll be scary. That was real good. It makes that cool sound, doesn't it? This is getting scary now. Listen, I think these 55 pound forks need to be flared, don't they? Yes. That was scary because you don't really want side impact on cheap stuff. They're actually annoyingly good, aren't they? This like volcano in the middle could actually be cool for like backwards manual and in, I don't know. I think we can get insanely straight with these forks. There's no bolts or anything under there so you can like grind them. Okay, so it doesn't really work that well. Fully stuck in the bike now. Yeah, I think what we're gonna do actually is move on now. The next forks are just gonna blow your mind, come on. We've come back into the woods and it's time to fit the final fork. Coming in at 150 pounds, these are the most expensive fork out of the four and they look incredible. Recently, a lot of the big companies have been starting to make upside down forks so I guess these guys jumped in on the chance of getting involved. And as these are more expensive and feel quite a bit heavier, I feel they're actually gonna be safer so we can send it a bit more. So we're gonna be fitting them to the Canyon Spectral there. That's my enduro bike. They're gonna be unbelievable on there. After some maintenance by the van, we have the Park Gloss Forks fitted. They look sick actually. Scary thing with upside down forks, you don't have a brace so there's a lot of movement there which I think you can say is helpful for grip and stuff. To me, it just looks like it's weak and scary and snappy but I don't know, let's see what happens. Here we go then, let's build up to the excitement. See what we're in for here. Oh my goodness. Here we go, it's a little jump line action. Oh, huge on there. Made it down there on a huge jump. Everything I'm just a little bit hesitant for. I don't know if they've even been specially tested. You're not Sitchi AliExpress. They could have just pressed them on a machine, put them on there and throw them out but when we cut them down, it did take ages so the metal seems to be strong and they haven't broken then hitting all them big jumps but I'm still just like jumping a bit weird. If they break, you just face plant. There's nothing you can do about it. For the finale, we've come into the woods of Windhill Bike Park because they've got a perfect step up down there. You fly down this hill, racer into that and you can get a lot of air time because I want to get these forks flipped. They have to be and on the big mountain bike, let's get it done down there. Here we go, dropping. Oh, yes, sick. I got the butt glosses upside down. I think it felt great actually. Another thing that's sick is that my new designs for the merch are available now. You might have seen them over the last few videos. I've slowly sort of leaked them out but we've got three stay weird designs on some of the iconic weird bikes that I've had, the bed bike, penny farthing and the tricycle so there's three different ones to choose from. You can have a look. So if you're interested in them, there's a week pre-order now where you can get your orders in and after that, I'll send them out. So click the link and get involved. What we're gonna do now is get crazier with a back flip no hander with these forks. Let's do it. Yes, second no hander flip of the video on cheap forks but these ones, yeah, scary. There's something a bit scary. Listen, I don't know what it is and these like little things here make all sort of shaking sound. I don't know. There's something a bit scary about it but let's get that fish eye on. I think I can get a flip can on the go. Yes, multiple bangers on the butt glosses for 150 quid brand new and an upside down fork. Weirdly good. Like I said earlier, I don't know if I'd buy them and ride them properly because you could just get a second hand pair of forks for 150 quid with a brand on there that you have a bit more trust in. But what a sick lot. The first pair, 15 quid, I'd stay away from them. I don't know if they're real SR Suntours but any fork that has a quick release on it in this day and age, don't go there. It's definitely gonna be a weak one. The carbon fork, terrifying just purely for the fact that I felt like it was gonna snap in my face any second. Actually, I didn't break it so they still exist but won't be using them again, the 51 pound specials. And onto the next pair, 55 quid, they were weirdly surprisingly good as well. Flares, flips, tricks, all sorts of fun. So that is a potential option if you wanna build a jump bike cheap. The Nanlio's could be an option. And obviously the final pair here, butt glossing around. And finally, like I said, the merch is available now so get involved, that'd be sick. Join the Ork Trad crew with the Stay Weird collection. Hopefully I see you guys out shredding in this gear soon. Unfortunately, that's the end. See you in the next one. To the sky. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.