Fitting a longer travel fork?

JakeWC

I hope someone can offer a bit of advice as I am a total fettling muppet. I have a 19 inch Kona Caldera with 100mm travel OE Marzzochi fork. I want to swap it for a longer travel fork like the Rock Shox revelation as i thrash my bikes around quite a bit.

I'm 6ft and the bike feels like it has a nice position at the moment, so I don't want to screw around with the geometry too much. If I was to fit a 130mm fork like the revelation is there anything i can do to negate the change in geometry slightly? For instance, if I fit a 0 degree rise stem like the Hope model, will this help out with the rise in fork height?

supersonic

You also want to look at whether the frame is warantied for this travel. The change in geometry affects the handling. If you were to do this I would get a travel adjust reveleation so you can experiment.

caw35slr

JakeWC wrote:

I'm 6ft and the bike feels like it has a nice position at the moment, so I don't want to screw around with the geometry too much.

Why screw with it at all? You need to tell us what it is that you don't like about your current fork. More travel may not be the answer - a good qulaity 100mm fork could transform your bike without messing with the geometry that you like!

Will Snow

oddly, ive never ran a frame with the 'correct' length fork, its always had another inch or so travel (nothing mad), and i personally think it happens to handle better. Personal preference, you will adapt to change after a few weeks. but quite rightly, whats wrong with the old uns???

Splasher

Will Snow wrote:

oddly, ive never ran a frame with the 'correct' length fork, its always had another inch or so travel (nothing mad), and i personally think it happens to handle better.

A kindred spirit, over the years I've ran a 100mm fork on an 80mm frame, a 130 on a 120, a 150 on a 125, and I've just bought a 160mm Fox 36 to go on a 140mm Reign.

Must like our bikes slack and fast. No masogonistic jokes thank you :shock:

Will Snow

see??? i told them it was the rest of the world that was wrong!!! (cue insane giggling). admitadly, the reason for the longer forks was more ooh, there cheap, and at the time i was a bit of a noob...