View Full Version : Fork on Stump 29er Single Speed
chsad
05-26-2008, 03:29 PM
100mm or 80mm? The catalog has them putting 80mm on all hardtail 29ers. However I have a FOX F29 RLC 100. It can be reduced to 80mm. Suggestions?
robcycle
05-26-2008, 03:50 PM
My personal preference is to rigid. YMMV
As for a 100mm fork on a 80mm bike, well, ... on a 26" it slackens the HTA about an degree or so IIRC. Don't know how that works on a 9'er's steeper HTA and different trail, but I imagine it would still slacken it up a little. So, if the bike was an XC rocket with an 80mm fork it would probably still be fairly rideable with a 100mm fork, with an advantage on the downhills.
And reducing travel? You'll have to ask Rocky :p
-Rob.
Hand/of/Midas
05-26-2008, 04:25 PM
those forks reduce easily. and i would go to 80. and i REALLY want to see this bike in SS mode if you got pics.
chsad
05-26-2008, 07:34 PM
Rode it for the first time yesterday.
Hand/of/Midas
05-26-2008, 08:29 PM
thats so sweet that spech made such a sweet bike with sliders. i love that. how did you buy that bike? im curious as most of your parts are not stock. are you a shop employee and get a blem bike or something?
chsad
05-26-2008, 08:33 PM
Midas are you in U.S.? They sell the frame alone, most parts I had.
Cricket
05-26-2008, 08:37 PM
Midas are you in U.S.? They sell the frame alone, most parts I had.
Ouch. Midas looks Meineke now
RepublicanSS
05-26-2008, 08:57 PM
that's a sweet stumpy, my son has a stumpjumper 26er though that's a few years old, same color. i ride sometimes, because he rarely rides it.
i don't own a specialized personally, but they make a great bike.
chsad
05-26-2008, 11:08 PM
I have only ridden specialized the past 7 years. Good stuff. Here is my Epic....I know 29er forum..no I don't work at a shop and I don't get ride nearly enough....
Hand/of/Midas
05-27-2008, 01:27 PM
Midas are you in U.S.? They sell the frame alone, most parts I had.
that was my other guess. the specialized stem threw me off, since that doesnt come with the frame only option.
yea. chicago.
chsad
05-27-2008, 06:37 PM
came off of my 07 stump fsr that I sold. stem, saddle, cranks, pedals.
chsad
05-27-2008, 06:38 PM
why go 80mm?
Hand/of/Midas
05-27-2008, 06:55 PM
why go 80mm?
quicker steering, and drop the front for climbing, and i personally dont believe 29er need as much suspension.
with the 44mm offset of that Fox Fork I'd leave it alone at 100mm and ride the snot out of that bike!
Sleek looking ride you've got there!!! Nice job!