Rear Suspension Upgrade.
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Hi newbie here,
This maybe a silly question but I have have a Ghost 5700 lector carbon/alloy with a 100mm travel rear shock.
What i want to know is could i replace the rear shock with a larger one 150mm ?? and if so would i get the full benefit?
Thanks for any help and go easy on me like i said im a newbie
This maybe a silly question but I have have a Ghost 5700 lector carbon/alloy with a 100mm travel rear shock.
What i want to know is could i replace the rear shock with a larger one 150mm ?? and if so would i get the full benefit?
Thanks for any help and go easy on me like i said im a newbie
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Suspension travel is a factor of frame design - the shock works with the suspension but does not generally have the same stroke as the listed suspension travel - for example my bike takes a 57mm stroke shock for 100mm of travel - putting a longer stroke shock on (which would need to have the same eye to eye length as the existing shock to fit) would alter the characteristics of your bike outside what the designer intended but not in the way you want - it might just make it not work very well at all.
If you want a longer travel bike you need to buy a different frame. But you dont need longer travel.Closet jockey wheel pimp whore.0 -
It would not work at all. The linkage will start to hit the frame or reach the end of it's movement not much beyond the limits of it's design.
If you want more rear travel, you need a new frame.Transition Patrol - viewtopic.php?f=10017&t=130702350 -
what you might be able to do is fit the rear linkages from one of the higher travel amr's0
