words and photos: Gary Barnard

Have you ever wanted something for your whole life?

Have ever wanted something for your whole life sadly knowing that you probably will never have it?

That is how I felt about BOS suspension.  Interestingly enough not everyone knows about BOS, their history and the prestige that accompanies it!

In my life BOS started off as the “No Name” single crown forks and huge rear shocks that the Sunn Chippie team used.  It then turned into the super sexy dual crown forks on the front of some crazy french dual slalom racer at the Stellenbosch world cup in ‘98 (a certain Cedric ‘crazy french’ Gracia).  The epitome was the unbelievable F1 racing quality Carbon upside down wonder fork that I saw in person in Vail 2001 when Nico won the World Championships.

Needless to say I wanted one and never thought owning one would be possible.

By a strange twist of fate I ended up being one of the first riders sponsored by a little known company in PMB, South Africa called Morewood Bikes.  A company that I have believed in 100% since the first time I rode a Morewood in 2002.  This company slowly but surely started to produce some of the finest handling Downhill bikes in the world and reached a level of design, build and performance quality that translated into a relationship with the enigmatic BOS engineering.

Now, many years after staring at the pages of the first Dirt magazines trying to work out who the hell made THAT, I now have a BOS engineering fork on my patio table!

Does it live up to all the hype?

Hell yea, It is my new best friend

Well almost…Here is my real new best friend.

Summer Barnard - Super chilled

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