giant trance upgraded 140mm fork

barnyb

Can I have your opinions please.
I want to take a giant trance x2, and swap the front fork for a 140mm fork.
Is this sensible?

DCR00

check with Giant first

pastey_boy

it works great and greatly improves the bike and no need to check with giant as they themselves have specced trance x's with 140mm forks. i would suggest sticking a zero degree stem on though to bring the already high front end down a bit

nwmlarge

depends on the year
i have one on my 06 frame

pastey_boy

nwmlarge wrote:

depends on the year
i have one on my 06 frame

the trance x didnt exist in 2006

nwmlarge

sorry my mistake 07

pastey_boy

nwmlarge wrote:

sorry my mistake 07

i think giant only started doing the trance x in 2008.

CitizenLee

I think it came out in 07 but was an 08 model.

Proutster

I'm thinking of doing this to my Trance X4 and, as pointed out to me by Rockmonkeysc, there are quite a few posts on the Southerndownhill forum with people who've already done this and say that it works well.

I'm thinking of going with some Rockshox Sektor RL Coil U-turns (110-150mm) with 20mm maxle, which should stiffen up the front end a bit as well.
Also toying with the idea of putting a slightly longer rear shock on it (200m i2i, 51mm travel which should give 150mm rear travel) to balance it out and give me 150mm travel front & rear. Not sure what this would do to the overall height of the bike though?

pastey_boy

Proutster wrote:

I'm thinking of doing this to my Trance X4 and, as pointed out to me by Rockmonkeysc, there are quite a few posts on the Southerndownhill forum with people who've already done this and say that it works well.

I'm thinking of going with some Rockshox Sektor RL Coil U-turns (110-150mm) with 20mm maxle, which should stiffen up the front end a bit as well.
Also toying with the idea of putting a slightly longer rear shock on it (200m i2i, 51mm travel which should give 150mm rear travel) to balance it out and give me 150mm travel front & rear. Not sure what this would do to the overall height of the bike though?

what you just said is not possible, the linkages only allow the fitting of a 185mm shock. to fit a 200mm shock it would have to be compressed which would take you back to having the amount of travel you started with

Proutster

pastey_boy wrote:

Proutster wrote:

I'm thinking of doing this to my Trance X4 and, as pointed out to me by Rockmonkeysc, there are quite a few posts on the Southerndownhill forum with people who've already done this and say that it works well.

I'm thinking of going with some Rockshox Sektor RL Coil U-turns (110-150mm) with 20mm maxle, which should stiffen up the front end a bit as well.
Also toying with the idea of putting a slightly longer rear shock on it (200m i2i, 51mm travel which should give 150mm rear travel) to balance it out and give me 150mm travel front & rear. Not sure what this would do to the overall height of the bike though?

what you just said is not possible, the linkages only allow the fitting of a 185mm shock. to fit a 200mm shock it would have to be compressed which would take you back to having the amount of travel you started with

Thanks - didn't think about that, I just looked at the Giant booklet that came with the bike and saw that the Reign has 6" of travel and uses a 200 x 51 shock - forgot all about linkages and clever stuff like that!!
At least you've saved me thinking any further about this (daft) idea, I knew someone with an engineering brain would set me right!!

nwmlarge

to confirm my bike whatever year it is looks like this with a 140mm pike attached



and like this with the fork at 95mm



and like this roughly prior to being "rawed"