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01-26-22 | 08:16 AM

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Bikes: Lemond '01 Maillot Jaune, Lemond '02 Victoire, Lemond '03 Poprad, Lemond '03 Wayzata DB conv(Poprad), '79 AcerMex Windsor Carrera Professional(pur new), '88 GT Tequesta(pur new), '01 Bianchi Grizzly, 1993 Trek 970 DB conv, Trek 8900 DB conv

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Originally Posted by AeroGut

To elaborate on DorkDisk's comment - using 1994 as an example (catalog available on retrobike), the rigid fork on the stumpjumper is listed as "DD Tange Chromoly, tapered blades". For the Rockhopper models, it's just "DD Chromoly" and for the hardrocks (except for Hardrock ultra), it's "high-tensile steel". So the fork quality tracks with the frame quality. Expect the Stumpy forks to be lighter and slightly more flexible than the lower models.

I need to take another (closer) look at a series of their catalogs. I think what you have here is "it". It makes sense, and what I would expect, that the fork would get finer as the frame does. I was hoping that maybe Spec was "saving" money on excess inventory & maintaining multiple SKUs by having one fork for multiple models. Pop goes that bubble.
Thx..good info.

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