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Can you change a 130mm travel fork to a 100mm or 120mm travel fork
fox vanilla rlc[?]
fox vanilla rlc[?]
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If its 2005-2006 then yes. Instructions are in the manual which is on the website if you don't have it. It doesn't look exceptionally hard to do.
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Thats great they are 05-06 forks cheers
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It changes the spring rate somewhat as well. You will blow through the travel a bit easier as the last inch or so isn't quite as ramped as when it is on the full 130. Not too much of a problem if you are just doing cross country but its worth being wary of.
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I have 120mm travel forks at the mo with 4" shock at the back
but everyone seems to think it might be bad to have 130mm at the front because of the geo of the frame will 10mm really make that much of a difference.0 -
Not at all. If anything putting on a 100mm fork will make it feel too twitchy. What frame is it?
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If you see my other topic it is a clubroost xc40
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Not sure about Vanilla RLC but I know for sure that you can switch Fox Vanilla 125R down to 100mm because I did that once so I could run them on a (now stolen) Stumpjumper frame I had.
It's not as straightforward as just removing spacers though and I had to change springs from the standard blue ones for the stronger green ones when I stepped down to 100mm.
Ask your LBS to advise or Mojo
I don't think 10mm will make a massive difference though and you can always have less spacers under your stem, a lower rise stem or lower rise bars to compensate and lower the front end that 10mm if you wantDave S0
