back on track but a little issue !

mickyp

i recently moved over to yorkshire having spent years living abroad why im not sure but hey ho.

my issue is that i currently have triple clamp forks which were perfect for the conditions that i used to ride (lots of downhill) but now i find they are a bit big and move a little to much if thats possible and so have bought some nice new shiny rock shox SID which i think will better suit the local riding. this is where i sound stupid :

when i take off the triple clamp forks am i going to need any other parts to fit the SID ?

thanks for any help

anjs

Will need the tools to fit the forks

paul.skibum

Depends on the triples - do they have an integrated stem? If so you will need a new stem, possibly some spacers, a top cap and star fangled nut. I assume the axles are going to match - you dont have a 20mm axle ont he triples and a quick release on the sid that wont match do you?

mickyp

hi paul, no the stem is seperate. so it should really just be a case of lifting the old ones off and bolting the new ones on ?

or it should roughly be ! obviously these things never quite work that way

supersonic

What bike is it for? Any pics?

bomberesque

Oh my, I've just had an image of my stinky D with an RS SID up front

mickyp; most Triple clamp forks are very long travel (160+), a pair of SIDs (they're 100, so a full 60mm shorter A2C, possibly up to 100mm shorter) would do impossible things to the handling, including dropping the BB down so low you'll be scraping the ground!

as SS says; pics would be helpful, but if they're big DH triple clamps, I'd think about changing them for Lyrics or Domains (or fox 36/Talas) rather than SIDs, which are a very lightweight racing fork (and a bunch shorter than DH or FR triple clamps)

I'm off to strip the SID off my IBIS and lob it on the Stinky just coz!

supersonic

I bet he has RST Hi5 or Junior Ts ;-)

bomberesque

I was thinking Jr Ts myself

's what I have on the stinky

mickyp

yeah they are junior t's, served me well over the years in the canaries. as much as them being to big they are ready to be retired

the frame is an orange crush 2008

supersonic

The SID will make the bike feela lot different - the front end will be so much lower, and the angles steeper.

You might be better off with a 130mm Revelation.

marcaudsley

Do you live in Sowerby Bridge?
Someone passed my work the other day with a bike that looked like you described

mickyp

no mate over towards wakey

RichMTB

I once saw a bloke in Glentress riding a Dawes hardtail that he stuck massive Marz triple clamps on. I swear the front end was pointing at the sky. The bloke must have been in his fifties as well. No idea why he had done it (felt it might be a bit rude to point out the obvious handling issues he might have)

Anyway to the OP you are about to have the same problem but the other way round. Try and find out the axle to crown height of you current fork (the distance from the centre of you front wheel to the bottom of your head tube)

Any fork that is more than say 30mm shorter than this value will most likely wreck the handling of you bike

Hope this helps

bomberesque

Orange on their '10 Crush wrote:

Designed around a grin-inducing 140mm fork

the fork you have on there now is longer than the bike is designed for but I think going all the way down to 100 would be a mistake, honestly

so yeah, what SS says. RS Revelation .... or fox 32 Talas or 140 Vanilla if you have the beans. I'd go for a 15/20mm thro version aswell, to maintain stiffness

I dare say you'll wonder why you didn't change before, I have an 03 Jr T and it's ...erm.... not a great fork IMO (mind you, a LOT of fork for the money iirc). Plus it's a 3kg fork, any of the above will be well south of 2kg.

/edit; oh and here's the fork guide for the frame from their site;



120-150 single clamp fork. you may be lucky you didn't break your frame (although perhaps the earlier crushes were built for longer forks?)