Originally Posted by
ca7erham
. . . I put a 130mm travel fork on my C'dale F5? Well, not die, but how much would it screw up my geometry? I want something with longer travel so that if I ever get the Komodo frame I've been eyeing, I can just swap out all parts and make a Komofodale 5 (get it Cannondale F5 combined with *edit* Komodo *edit*). Thanks!
From the sounds of things...you should look into a U-turn fork.
Tora, PIKE, Revelation
Fox Talas
You can run it at 4" until you get your new frame.
Tora's are cheap and pretty nice. I think it's the unsung hero of the blue collar MTB world. If you can find a '05--'06 Fox Vanilla for sale, they are internally convertible to 4" and mine was pretty nice. If you got coin...go for the PIKE though.