Fork travel limits

tompsk73

Heres a question, if im riding a bike with 80mm fork travel, what is to stop me fitting longer tavel forks, 120 or there abouts? I mean if the travel is going up by 50mm but the overall length of the fork is going up by only 20mm or so, then apart from changing the geometry very slightly is there really gonna be a great deal more stress on the head tube?

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it main problem is that it will change the handling quite a lot, also if you fit a fork out side the manufacturs recomendations the warrenty with become invalid, maybe get a fork with u-turn,, what fork when you thinking of,


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Some manufacturers have travel limits. Small changes in geometry can have quite large effects on handling: slacker angles, higher bottom bracket and slower handling. As above, a travel adjust fork can help you set to preference

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