Axle to Crown Ridge Fork = ? Travel

bobbydigital
bobbydigital Posts: 254
edited May 2018 in MTB workshop & tech
I'm currently looking at a set of Exotic carbon forks for a BFE but wondered if there's some way to know what Axle to Crown measurement would be in terms of travel?

Looking at 46.5cm and really need at least 120mm travel on a BFE 26.

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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,715
    Pretty easy to find the axle to crown for any given fork by googling. For example, a 120mm 26" Reba is 493mm. You would probably run about 30mm of sag, so a 465mm rigid fork should work fairly nicely.
  • bobbydigital
    bobbydigital Posts: 254
    Awesome mate, thank you.

    I thought I might have needed a 29er fork which is 490mm but I didn't take sag in to account.

    So it's pretty much 2.5 mm difference in the favor of being a bit higher than lower.

    Cheers
  • 02gf74
    02gf74 Posts: 1,171
    You mean 25mm surely.
  • bobbydigital
    bobbydigital Posts: 254
    493 - 30mm of sag = 463mm

    Rigid forks are 465mm

    It ends up roughly equal to 120mm travel as it's a bit lower than the 130s on my other bfe but one is small frame and the other medium.

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