Originally Posted by
born2bahick
I'm not talking about raising the bars as such, I'm dealing with the distance from the axle to the crown on the fork. The inch Kona was referring to is there. The bigger tire on front would make up some of this as i said. Look up Axle to crown measurement and I think you will see what I'm saying. I'm currently running an 80mm travel fork on a frame designed for a 100. But the difference in the axle to crown measurements of the two forks was only a half inch. Take a measurement of the fork you have and compare it with the online mesurement of the fork that the bike was specced with and you should know exact numbers.
I've emailed Marzocchi to ask about the distance from axle to crown. It does not seem to be shown on their website. HOWEVER, the fork length (not sure if that is the same distance) on the one I have is 472mm. I cannot find anything on the stock RockShox Tora 302 Solo Air. GAH!
However, comparable forks on the RockShox (Sram) website, although do not give this distance, most of them are adjustable anyway. Some can be adjusted from 80/100/120mm. Others from 120/130/150mm.
So, if a forks travel can be adjusted, thus changing the axle to crown distance (??), then why is it an "issue" for me to use a 100mm travel fork?
Originally Posted by
3speed
Also, I'm not familiar with that particular bike, but if it was built with a more slack geometry, and you plan to just ride it on xc type trails, dropping the front and giving it a bit steeper of a head-tube angle might not really be a problem anyway. Do you know how many degrees the head tube angle is with the bike in stock form?
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No, I don't know, but the Marzocchi techie said that the Corsa fork, with 100mm of travel would slacken the headtube angle by 1 degree.