Take a close look at either Maverick fork and you see that the design is inverted from a traditional mountain bike fork design. The stanchions that are traditionally at the top of the fork are on the bottom. The advantages to this inverted fork design are many:
 
• Gravity is keeping the lubricity of your fork at a maximum. Oil is always being forced onto the seals and sliders by gravity, resulting in a smoother fork, all of the time.
• The stanchions are not up by the tire getting mud, dirt and rocks flicked at them all the time. Since the integrity of the fork relies on the stanchions sliding through the seals without leaking, it definitely makes sense to position them out of harm’s way.
• Allows us to use rock-solid uppers, which suspend the weight better and allow the wheel to be more active in the bumps.
• By placing the larger tubes at the highest-stress part of the fork, you get better fore, aft, and lateral stiffness.
• Our design is light. In fact, the DUC32 is the lightest 6” travel fork around (3.9lbs).
 
Overall, the result of our inverted design is more active suspension, a better ride, and more control.

Better. That’s all we’re looking for when we depart from a “traditional” design. We could have constructed our DUC32 fork using clamps like traditional forks do, but we knew if we welded the support into the fork we could dramatically improve its performance. We found instant results—incredible stiffness and durability, with improved braking, and increased control. All that, and it’s lighter too! Our welded “H” on the DUC32 makes any bike handle better.

When we designed QuickFlip, we had two goals:

To create the sturdiest union of the fork and axle that we could.
One of the reasons our inverted fork design is so stiff and responsive, is because of the special union between our unique 24/7 axle and the fork. Imagine trying to hold onto your handle bars by placing the palms of your hands on the ends of the bars and pressing in. That’s basically what traditional QR’s are doing with your axle. It makes sense that grabbing the bars with your hands in the traditional way is a whole lot more efficient and secure. That’s what the QuickFlip clamps do…they grab the 24/7 axle and hold it in place like no other system can. As a result the wheel works as an integrated member of the front suspension, giving you more control, better handling, and a lighter bike.
 
To make the system painlessly simple to use.
QuickFlip is basically just two “over center” clamps that clasp the axle, so using them is as easy as buckling a ski boot (only you don’t have mittens on). Just slide the wheel into place, hook the small bolt heads into the drop outs , and “snap” your axle is one with the fork.

he Maverick 24/7 hub design is another great example of how we haven’t limited our own fork’s performance by limiting ourselves to the existing technologies available in hubs. We knew we wanted to complete the DUC32 and SC32 fork design by creating an extremely stiff fork/hub union, so a thru axle design was perfect. Then we figured out that we could make the traditional tru axle stronger, and shave some weight off, by actually increasing the diameter of the axle to 24mm (it’s a physics thing…hard to explain). Then we opted to beef up the primary tortional stress point on the axle by increasing its diameter in the center of the hub to 27mm. The 24/7 hub design was born.

There are times when you'd like to drop the height, and therefore stiffen, your fork a little bit for climbs. Turn the lever on top of the right fork leg on the DUC or the SC and your fork will stay compressed two inches below it's maximum travel. It doesn’t lock out your fork, so it continues to provide small bump compliance as you climb. When you get to the top, turn the lever to the left, and your back in business with full travel.