Road Cycling - Modding a ATB to a semi Road bike

Looking to drop my suspension fork and add more of a road fork, my question is, would a roadie fork work on a atb bike..... The reason I am doing this is for the tougher body for pulling a 150lb beer cart...


Cheers,

the road fork will need to be "suspension correct." meaning the distance from the fork crown to the dropouts will need to be the same on both forks in order for it to work preoperly. you could look into getting a regular rigid mountain fork, or adjusting the suspension so that it doesn't have much "give" in it. there's really no reason that a road fork wouldn't work on a mountain bike, unless the mountain fork has a 1 1/8" steerer tube and the road fork has a 1" steerer tube.

i think your best bet would be to try to find a rigid fork from a redline mono cog frame, or something like that.

good luck with the project, and you might want to try asking the same question in the SS forum, or the mountain bike forum. the SS/fixers are more open to modifying bikes than the roadies, and i'm not surprised that you haven't gotten many replies out of this. i hope i helped.

you can get a surly fork, rigid, suspension corrected, derby rated (read: damn near indestructible) for somewhere between 60-70 bucks at almost any bike shop. odds are they'll have to special order it, but my point is they can get it, and it wont cost an arm and a leg.

use a 650c road fork.... it's pretty close to the size of MTB forks

a 650c fork won't be suspension correct, and probably won't accommodate wider tires...it's a good idea, but since he mentioned that he had suspension, he'd probably be better off with 700c or even 27"...or the surly fork like fore mentioned.

Most new rigid mtb forks available today are suspension corrected and that'll be the way to go. I've done this on a couple of mtb's already. Are you planning on converting anything else such as.....bars, shifters, levers, etc...?