Originally Posted by
scrublover
That was a steel frame, built around a 100mm travel RS Duke. Fork in the pic is a 130mm Z-1. About the same difference in a2c as the OP is considering... Not a super light frame either; about 4.5# for the frame. Granted, it was also being ridden much harder than when I originally bought it...
Wow, that is an impressive break. So if we have aluminum frames, is that where its likly to break? Also, did you ride it with a crack or did it just snap all of a sudden? Lastly, how do you know that the extra 30mm was the culprit.
I'm not saying I don't believe that a longer travel fork will snap the frame, just curious...