Crossbike with supsension...Possible?
04-13-05, 10:00 AM
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Crossbike with supsension...Possible?
Greetings guys,
I was just wondering if it was possible and sane to create a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork?
Thanks
-Peter
I was just wondering if it was possible and sane to create a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork?
Thanks
-Peter
04-13-05, 10:12 AM
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yep - sr suntour make a 700c fork there are other manufacturers as well. Google 700c suspension.
SF-NRX9100-RL-700
https://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/standard.xml?vpID=163
SF-NRX9100-RL-700
https://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/standard.xml?vpID=163
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You could always run a 26" front wheel. Bit of a frankenstein, but it would work.
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Originally Posted by MichaelW
How do you jump logs with a sus fork? As you lift the front to clear the obstacle, the fork expands.
04-13-05, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by MichaelW
How do you jump logs with a sus fork? As you lift the front to clear the obstacle, the fork expands.
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Originally Posted by rmwun54
You could try a Marzochi '29er mx comp fork, I did and it's a done deal.
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04-14-05, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Timo
It has absolutely nothing to do with cyclocross
04-14-05, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by simplyred
Greetings guys,
I was just wondering if it was possible and sane to create a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork?
Thanks
-Peter
I was just wondering if it was possible and sane to create a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork?
Thanks
-Peter
-Stove
04-14-05, 05:48 PM
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Cannondale XR800... they dont make them anymore, because there was little demand, now if you can find a silk road, you basically have the same bike, less canti brakes. So you're limited to 28c tires. Not that it is a bad thing... just not going to handle well in sandy loose conditoins.
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Originally Posted by Stove
Peter- My quandry is: if you're going to put a suspension fork on your cross bike, why not go all the way to a mountain bike? Questions of genre asside, what are you hoping to gain? I mean no criticism by this question - as a newbie, I simply seek to understand.
-Stove
-Stove
I still have yet to discern what goes where... so that's why I asked the question... possbility and functionality...
I've bought a road bike and now am thinking of a second ^^
Cyclocross seems to do it for me as a rainy day and terrain bike... I don't do hucks or stunts
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simplyred... a cyclo-cross bike can be whatever you want it to be. it can have 26" wheels and flat bars or disc brakes and suspension or moustache bars and a fixed gear or 700c wheels and aero bars or panniers and a pogo seatpost or two wheels or one or three.
cyclo-cross is whatever you want to call cyclo-cross. commuting is cyclo-cross. mountain biking is cyclo-cross. touring is cyclo-cross. bmx is cyclo-cross. grass track racing is cyclo-cross. road cycling is cyclo-cross.
cyclo-cross is anything you want to do with any bike. or without a bilke at all.
thus any bike is a cyclo-cross bike and anything that you do, including creating a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork, is cyclo-cross.
hope that clears everything up.
cyclo-cross is whatever you want to call cyclo-cross. commuting is cyclo-cross. mountain biking is cyclo-cross. touring is cyclo-cross. bmx is cyclo-cross. grass track racing is cyclo-cross. road cycling is cyclo-cross.
cyclo-cross is anything you want to do with any bike. or without a bilke at all.
thus any bike is a cyclo-cross bike and anything that you do, including creating a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork, is cyclo-cross.
hope that clears everything up.
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Originally Posted by velocipedio
simplyred... a cyclo-cross bike can be whatever you want it to be. it can have 26" wheels and flat bars or disc brakes and suspension or moustache bars and a fixed gear or 700c wheels and aero bars or panniers and a pogo seatpost or two wheels or one or three.
cyclo-cross is whatever you want to call cyclo-cross. commuting is cyclo-cross. mountain biking is cyclo-cross. touring is cyclo-cross. bmx is cyclo-cross. grass track racing is cyclo-cross. road cycling is cyclo-cross.
cyclo-cross is anything you want to do with any bike. or without a bilke at all.
thus any bike is a cyclo-cross bike and anything that you do, including creating a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork, is cyclo-cross.
hope that clears everything up.
cyclo-cross is whatever you want to call cyclo-cross. commuting is cyclo-cross. mountain biking is cyclo-cross. touring is cyclo-cross. bmx is cyclo-cross. grass track racing is cyclo-cross. road cycling is cyclo-cross.
cyclo-cross is anything you want to do with any bike. or without a bilke at all.
thus any bike is a cyclo-cross bike and anything that you do, including creating a single speed cross bike with a suspension fork, is cyclo-cross.
hope that clears everything up.
