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My Hightower 1 has 150mm Forks and one offset bushing that i've just fitted. This should take the HA down from 67 to 66.
I have another offset bushing i could also stick on, but would this be a step too far? Any hightower owners done this? Will be able to try it out properly once its safe to ride the bike in anger (no gnarr at the moment) but wondering if anyone did this and then swapped back as it ruined the handing elsewhere.
Two offset bushings usually gives a touch less than one degree of change, IIRC.
So your one bushing is probably 0.4 to 0.5 degrees slacker.
Definitely stick the other in, though I'd be tempted to bung a -2deg slackset in it - which would steeped up the seat angle at the same time.
The Hightower has an integrated headset so a slackset isnt an option.
The original 67 deg angle is for a 140mm fork (should have said this earlier) so plus 10mm in fork travel = -0.5 deg then another -0.5deg for the single offset is my full -1 deg HA change.
Gotcha.
The good thing about bushings is it's quick and easy to pop them in and out and experiment a bit.
THrow it in, empty the shock and cycle it through the travel, as long as it doesn't clash then give it a go and see how it feels.
I found the Hightower a little wandery on climbs with 150mm forks and 29er wheels in the stock Low setting as it is with regular bushings. I’d start with one if I wanted slacker to see how it felt, but I never felt like the Hightower needed to be slacker - it always felt like a stable monster truck. Granted mine was an XL which felt pretty big.
I never felt like the Hightower needed to be slacker
To be fair, it probably doesn't. I'm just playing about, mainly due to lockdown boredom.