fork suggestions for £200-£300

thelawnet

I have one of these:

http://www.polygonbikes.com/my/bikes/de ... iskiu29-62

It's in Indonesia.

It has a rather basic fork (XCR), which I learned performs extremely poorly cf. my friends Epicon/Epixon air fork. Said Epicon fork cost around £180 locally.

I'm thinking of bringing a fork from the UK for around £200-£300, but I'm not sure what I should be looking at exactly.

Is this the right sort of thing? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fox-32-Float ... 2697719405

Presumably not worth changing to a bigger hub (I guess I have 9mm qr centrelock hub).

I think I want/need around 100mm travel as I use it on 'road', which is rather a loose definition as these are frequently unsurfaced and consist of large rocks, etc. But much of the time it will be used on tarmac. Definitely not looking to go down a technical trail or whatever, but like I said the roads are often REALLY bad, and suspension is essential.

cooldad

Those forks are also 9mm QR, the 100mm is the distance between dropouts, which is pretty standard (some new ones are 'Boost' which is wider.)

But they have a tapered steerer, yours is straight, so you might be able to fit them by messing around with an external lower headset.

cooldad

You might struggle to find a fork that fits and in in budget, and a seller that will send outside the UK. I wouldn't.

Nothing wrong with the Epicon.

thelawnet

cooldad wrote:

You might struggle to find a fork that fits and in in budget, and a seller that will send outside the UK. I wouldn't.

Nothing wrong with the Epicon.

I am currently in the UK so the fork would go with me in my suit case

cooldad

Happy hunting then. You ideally want a straight steerer that's long enough, with QR dropouts.

Like:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rock-Shox-Re ... Sw3NlZs6BD

Although I think they are Silver with steel stanchions, although the seller doesn't say. If so I wouldn't. Recon Gold minimum.

or

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rockshox-reb ... SwxixaIVJ5

A few notches up.

thelawnet

is this terrible? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fox-evolutio ... 2408107307

The Rookie

Not great, about the same as an Epicon I would say.

cooldad

No.

Depends what it goes for in the end.

thelawnet

The Rookie wrote:

Not great, about the same as an Epicon I would say.

Yes I see, I looked up the spec on the Fox website and it's a 2015, nothing special, accidentally misread the 5 as an S first time and it gave a much better spec. £158 (not yet finished) doesn't seem worth it exactly for a used one.