Not with a short travel fork of 80mm or less. Shock sag puts the height increase at more like 60 mm (2.4"). If you went crazy and put a fork that had 100mm or greater travel (3" when the sag is taken into account) on the bike, you'd start messing with the steering. 80mm is mostly unnoticed by the rider. A 80mm shock equipped bike doesn't even really need a suspension corrected fork to ride properly.