Advise Please

[craigross1]

Recently bought an NS Holy 2 24" bike from crc.

 

Want to buy a pair of suspension forks but i'm not sure what the deal is, when it comes to which ones to get. I wanna get some dj specific forks. Checked out CRC and i noticed that Manitou Circus specify 26" wheels only. All the others that i've looked at don't specify.

 

Would it simply be a matter of cutting the steerer down to fit?

 

Thanks.

[Peach.]

the most NB thing is the axle to crown height to get the correct head angle.

Your frame is designed for a 435mm A-C length, An 80mm DJ fork should be around 440mm A-C which should be fine for what you want.

 

I dont think you will find a 24" specific fork anywhere.

[craigross1]

Thanks man.

 

I checked out the Manitou Circus 80mm forks. They're the closest dirt jump forks that i could find that matched my current A - C. They're 458mm tho, so 23mm more than my current set up. Excuse my ignorance, i'm new to this, will this make a huge difference?

 

Another thing i noticed is that the other 24" bikes with 80mm suspension (e.g. NS Metropolis 2 and DMR drone, DMR Transition) all come with Marzocchi DJ3 forks. The head tube angles of these range between 70 deg and 72 deg. My NS has a head tube angle of 71.5 deg. I checked the A - C of the 80mm DJ3 forks, and it's 457.5mm. That's half a mm less than the manitou ones i wanna get. Surely then they'll be fine on my NS? Or are there any other factors that i'm overlooking?

[Peach.]

No worries

 

80mm forks are all roughly the same A-C length.

your bike with the rigid was probably quite steep anyway, that much wont make too much of a difference, i doubt you will even notice it, if the head angle is too low you will feel the bike handles like ***, if you let go the bars they will fall to the side easily.

You should have roughly 20% sag on your DJ fork anyway so it will lower the A-C height.

 

I went from an 80mm Manitou sliver to a rigid 435mm A-C and i couldn't notice a diff.

 

 

Let me know how it goes