Pikes are very very good forks, so I would suggest them alot. If you look at marzocchi the dirt jumper series are good strong forks but harder sprung than most because they are made for jumping, if you wanted a marzocchi but don't want the stiff-ness and weight of the dirt jumper then the mx comp's are also good forks, best to go with a coil sprung fork for the price range. Also manitou are worth a look, the new gold label jump forks are very very good also but again they do the stance forks which come with less weight and lighter sprung.