Podium Fork

Engineered for unforgiving descents, technical race lines, and the world's most demanding riders, FOX introduces Podium, a new benchmark in single crown fork performance. Delivering exceptional fore-aft rigidity, ultra-smooth travel, and DH-style confidence, Podium brings an unfair advantage to enduro racers and all mountain riders alike.

Podium is designed to be ridden like a downhill fork. No barriers. No hesitation. Complete confidence that your front wheel will hold the line, no matter how fast—or how big—you push it. All this while keeping your bike in a familiar range of travel and geometry in a single crown package.

Fox designed this inverted fork to get the absolute maximum performance out of the industry leading GRIP X2 damper, with every possible gain for smoothness in its travel and confidence-inducing fore-aft rigidity in the chassis.

Welcome to the Unfair Advantage. Welcome to Podium.

FEATURES:

• Oversized Uppers, Overbuilt Crown: 47mm upper tubes and massive crown give Podium incredible fore-aft rigidity. The chassis stiffness approaches that of a FOX 40, letting you power through the roughest and steepest trails with absolute confidence, even at Downhill race speed. Not fair.
• Custom Tuned Grip X2 Damper: Podium was designed around the dominant and award-winning GRIP X2 damper, custom tuned to account for reduced chassis friction. Riders sit higher in the travel and corner with increased traction, giving greater confidence while reducing fatigue significantly.
• Glidecore Air Spring: GlideCore reduces friction by moving with the fork under dynamic load. Large Nitrile Butadeine rings dampen and control this motion laterally under load and axially to reduce stiction. The result? Smoother suspension action and less overall fatigue, over big bumps and small.
• All The Bushing Overlap: The inverted chassis allowed us to design Podium with an advantageous 175mm of bushing overlap. This not only contributes to greater fore-aft rigidity, but contributes to Podium having the lowest possible chassis friction, especially at high speed.
• Large Diameter Axle: With no arch joining the fork legs, we achieved the optimum torsional stiffness by using a custom steel 20 x 110mm Boost DH axle. Our athletes and engineers tested extensively for steering response that feels natural and holds your intended line.

SPECS:

• Series: Factory

• Chassis: Inverted

• Crown Diameter: 58mm 

• Wheel Size: 29in

• Travel: 170mm 

• Damper: GRIP X2

• Damper Controls: HSC - LSC - HSR - LSR

• Axle: 20 x 110mm Boost

• Rake: 44mm

• Steerer: 1.5 Tapered

• Lower Tube Finish: Kashima

• Bypass Channels: No (unnecessary due to inverted design)

• Bleeders: Yes

• Floating Axle: Yes

• Rotor Size: 200mm direct Post Mount, 230mm max

• Mud Guard Mount: FOX Mud Guard available Fall 2025

• Air Spring: FLOAT EVOL GlideCore

• Starting Weight: 2695g