Originally Posted by
supernovae
I'm thinking of breathing life back into my 2002 trek 6500 as a commuter. I did pickup a nice road bike, but i would love to have something with flat pedals, lights and storage. Anyone ever replace the front forks on a 6500 with straight forks/no shocks? any brand/kit i should look out for that is pretty much a swap out?
For the past 4 months I've been commuting ( 12 miles round trip ) on my 2002 Trek 4900, not as nice as a 6500, but it serves the purpose.
Left the front suspension for now; think it's too old to spend the time and money to switch to rigid.
( if you want to change it out, there are some corrected rigid forks out there. Nashbar, Surly, etc.)
I just put some street tires on it and ride.