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Here is my 'freeride' friendly xc bike...
Medium Trance
Marzocchi 66SL reduced to 120mm
Avid Juicy 3
Hope/719/stans wheels
It's a pretty healthy 30lbs but light considering the forks!
Interesting..... I tried a similar thing with a Scott G-Zero while ago. Hopefully you'll get on better than I did.
Did yours break? The trance seems quite burly so we'll see...
No - just far too steep/twitchy and not very confidence inspiring. The Menjas I was using also didn't help as they're quite a short fork for their travel.
Gave it up and dug out my old Roast frame and ridden that since. Mind you just picked up a coiler of ebay and am waiting for the shock back from TF tuned to start building that up so I may yet go bouncy again.
how did you reduce the forks to 120mm?
did you do this because you already had them knocking around?
does it not feel a bit unbalanced with all that weight at the front?
curious as I was considering trying my 66s on my enduro but the travel is too much (170mm), they're a bit tall and a bit heavy - I'm guessing it's easier to reduce the travel on the SLs because they're air - I think I would have to change the internals on my 66 RC2Xs to get them to 150mm
[i]how did you reduce the forks to 120mm?[/i]
They're 'designed' to be reduced from 170-150 via the negative chamber so I just emptied the fork totally and worked out the pressures to get them to run at 120mm.
[i]did you do this because you already had them knocking around?[/i]
Yes but they're pretty well suited to the bike, I like having [i]very[/i] good forks. I had some Pikes or 36's that could be used but these are much nicer. Weight difference is minimal.
[i]does it not feel a bit unbalanced with all that weight at the front?[/i]
They're 'only' about 6lbs so it feels fine. The bike is balanced if lifted on the middle of the top tube and rode fine on a short spin yesterday.
I had a trance built up with a pace 130mm fork and the pikes set at 140mm, brilliant bike very very capable.........enjoy
I had a trance built up with a pace 130mm fork and the pikes set at 140mm, brilliant bike very very capable.........enjoy