DH forks!

TJ20862

Hi guys looking to upgrade and tart some Dh riding looking at secondhand cheapish boxxers or Marzorcchi drop off or 888 not sure which is best as iv never ridden any of them.
What would you suggest?
Cheers
Toby

cooldad

What bike do you want to put them on?

TJ20862

Kona stinky?

rockmonkeysc

What frame are you putting them on?
Used DH forks can be a risky purchase. They get a hard life and because they generally have high spec dampers repairs can be very expensive.
Whats your budget?
Have a look at new Rockshox Domain RC dual crowns, I have seen them for under £300 new and they are a good, solid, reliable fork with reasonable performance.
Which model Stinky do you have? None are really suited to dual crowns but some will be worse than others.

nicklouse

TJ20862 wrote:

Kona stinky?

what year frame?

TJ20862

05 Dee-lux

ilovedirt

You can put pretty much any fork on one of those, it's not gonna snap! A mate of mine had dual crown domains on there, reckoned it was pretty nice, heavy though.

rockmonkeysc

I have seen a few Stinky's with broken top tubes, all with dual crowns.
They ride better with a 180mm fork, the geometry is designed for 150-160 forks and its not a DH frame so fitting a 200mm fork screws the handling.

The Northern Monkey

Or not.

The 2005 stinky was spec'd with 200mm 888's on the supreme and 170mm 888's on the dee-lux and 170mm drop offs o the basic stinky.... all dual crown.

And everyone has seen a snapped Kona.... so what?

rockmonkeysc

I have only seen three snapped Stinky's, all had the original 160mm forks replaced with 200mm dual crowns.
They dont ride at all well with 8" forks. They make the BB too high.

TJ20862

Just another quick one a mate is asked if he can put any dual crown on a a 2012 carrera banshee?

cooldad

No. A bit more specific might help.

rockmonkeysc

TJ20862 wrote:

Just another quick one a mate is asked if he can put any dual crown on a a 2012 carrera banshee?

No. They will be far too long for the frame.
Fitting dual crown forks wont turn any old bike in to a DH bike.

TJ20862

Hi so which forks are better etc?

cooldad

Better etc than what?

cooldad

These might


These probably won't but look like a pretty pair.

rockmonkeysc

TJ20862 wrote:

Hi so which forks are better etc?

160mm Marzocchi 55 RC3 or Rockshox Domains/Lyriks would be a big improvement over the original forks.

cooldad

On what, the Banshee or the Stinky? OP is confused/confusing.

TJ20862

both?

rockmonkeysc

Those I suggested would work on either bike. 160mm on the Banshee. 180mm on the Stinky