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Can I just whack a 29er fork on the front of a normal frame to create a 69er ride? Keen to give this big wheel lark a shot...
cheers 🙂
The front wheel could end up very close to your frame and feet! do it properly and try a 29er front and back, the smaller wheel at the back will not give you the full benefit
hmmm... a quick search kind of reveals all 😳 😆
still, would be interested to hear any more recent thoughts and experiments 🙂
Don't know about doing it with a suss fork, but I have a 29 wheel running on a carbon 26 fork on a 26 inbred frame and it is the dogs danglies. Much better than with a 26 wheel.
I'm running the same set-up as Big Pete here and love it. No toe overlap problems or chopper steering problems. It rolls really well over roots etc.
if the frames adjusted to a 100mm fork, i wouldnt think it would be an issue putting a rigid fork and a 29" wheel on....
be aware of toe overlap too....
my front wagon wheel has just landed.
69'er tonight 😀 😀
use a 26 fork not a 29, like the prevoius two posters.
hmmm... so maybe I should stick with my original plan of going rigid, using my current 26" on-one fork...
I was thinking of using the White Brothers fork Ton has for sale in the classifieds... general consensus is it won't be a good result?
sticking my 29" wagon wheel into my CF on one 26" fork tonight on the Hummer 😀
To confirm.
Sticking a 29er wheel and 29er fork (rig/sus) on a 26er - bad.
Sticking a 29er wheel and 26er rid on a 26er - good.
Well - according to my soul anyway