27.5" fork, tapered, 120-150mm travel and a 20mm axle

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mooboyj

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So brains trust can you help me out? I need the following:

Tapered fork (I could live with a straight jobbie)
27.5" wheel size
Travel anywhere from 120-150mm
A 20mm axle.

It's all for a potential British steel hard tail build :)
 
moorey

moorey

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Fox 36, or marzocchi might be your only tapered 20mm option. I have tapered 20mm revs, but 26"
 
wkkie

wkkie

It's Not Easy Being Green
If you can find an X-Fusion vengeance, or even a metric, they're easily travel adjustable.
 
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mooboyj

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moorey said:
So..27.5 forks just to keep future options open?
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That is correct Moorey. But thinking about it last night has kind of swayed me to not worry about it. I have a nice set of MTX33's here ready to roll doing nothing, and a friend has some nice XC 26" wheels he doesn't use at all. I intend on doing the XC series on this bike (if it goes ahead), and do the Enduro Series on my Heckler. The Heckler is a terrible bike to race XC with (just to heavy and inefficent). It is fast on the downs, but I get stuck behind people because they kill me on the ups...

The Manitou's are actually my fall back fork. The bike will primarily be a fun trail bike, not a serious XC race machine. I really enjoy hard tails more than full suspension bikes, probably a throw back to me growing up on BMX bikes and riding them into my 20s.

I was told Fox forks tended to have clearance for 27.5 wheels, is that correct? Just a question more than anything else. That would open me to Fox 32 120-150mm forks...
 
JTmofo

JTmofo

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mooboyj said:
That is correct Moorey. But thinking about it last night has kind of swayed me to not worry about it. I have a nice set of MTX33's here ready to roll doing nothing, and a friend has some nice XC 26" wheels he doesn't use at all. I intend on doing the XC series on this bike (if it goes ahead), and do the Enduro Series on my Heckler. The Heckler is a terrible bike to race XC with (just to heavy and inefficent). It is fast on the downs, but I get stuck behind people because they kill me on the ups...

The Manitou's are actually my fall back fork. The bike will primarily be a fun trail bike, not a serious XC race machine. I really enjoy hard tails more than full suspension bikes, probably a throw back to me growing up on BMX bikes and riding them into my 20s.

I was told Fox forks tended to have clearance for 27.5 wheels, is that correct? Just a question more than anything else. That would open me to Fox 32 120-150mm forks...
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Highly unlikley you will get any XC type fork (ie Fox 32 120mm or similar) with a 20mm axel.

Jut sayin.......:juggle:
 
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cobba

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mooboyj said:
The Manitou's are actually my fall back fork.
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Re-shim the ABS+ damper from a Jump Stack to a Trail Stack and put a lighter coil spring in the ACT Air Spring (depending on your weight).

Doing that would convert the Circus from a DJ fork to a trail/xc fork that's basically the same as a Minute Expert/LTD.
 
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