Hello Brandon-
I was forwarded your email to answer some questions about the 2009 Rebas. I copied and pasted your questions at the bottom for reference.
1. The expected date for Reba with maxle lite in Mid September.
2.4. Yes, it will be available in an air u-turn option in white, silver and black. Dual Air or Air U-turn
3. We do have an Employee Purchase program, it’s handled through QBP. It is a percentage off of the their price.
Any other questions let me know,
Regards,
Tim Jones
SRAM Dealer Service USA
tjones@sram.com
800.346.2928 ext. 1394

My questions to SRAM:
1. When will it hit the shelves?
2. Will it be available in a U-turn option?
3. I work for REI in their central bike assembly facility as a bike mech and moonlight at another shop in Seattle, can I employee pro deal a fork?
4. Will the Team 29er 120 be available in silver? Speciffically I am looking for the Team 29er 120mm maxle lite (u-turn if available) in silver!

ENJOY

As for U-Turn, I am sure that it was scuttled just to get the forks out to OEMs for their ’09 line ups. Having U-Turn on their plates to do too maybe ended up being too much after all. Remember, they didn’t announce it at Sea Otter for fear that it wasn’t going to happen. Now those fears seem to have become reality.

A final note: The new Reba is starting to pop up on some photos of new ’09 product, so I believe that SRAM is delivering them to OEMs first and that there just isn’t anything in the pipeline for aftermarket………yet. I’ll bet it won’t be much longer though. Unfortunately, this is all just my speculating and if it does come true, it’ll be too late for much ’08 riding for many.