Question on Rigid Niner Fork on SS vs Front suspension

[SteveS]

Yip. Was going to use the wheelset from my existing SS but the front hub is QR. Guess I will have to buy a new wheelset, damn....

[rouxtjie]

Yip. Was going to use the wheelset from my existing SS but the front hub is QR. Guess I will have to buy a new wheelset, damn....

Demmit that is nice, I don't want to know how much you paid, but then again, it will be worth every penny

[SteveS]

Lucky for me the local suppliers still had old stock so getting it for less than what it is advertised on the Niner website given the dollar / rand stuff up.

Edited June 12, 2013 by SteveS

[Swift01]

Also as Eldron said, you quickly get used to a rigid...ito the "harshness"

 

The one thing that is tricky though is the fact that with a travel fork, it pushes out when you go over smallish bumps at speed, so the wheels always feel grounded and you take this for granted...Climb onto a rigid and you have to do what the front travel does by throwing your weight around....huge fun though

Well at least you have a excuse for the callouses on your right hand since you got the niner rigid. Not sure what excuse you told people before that :-)

[divernick]

I need to figure out how the get the work stand/ clamp out of the pic... that would make a really awesome image - just the bike 'floating' against the wall.

 

Not perfect but....

[rouxtjie]

Well at least you have a excuse for the callouses on your right hand since you got the niner rigid. Not sure what excuse you told people before that :-)

I have callouses on both hands now....so I am safe. You keeping the rigid for sa's then?

[Ryanpmb]

[Wyatt Earp]

Put a front suspension fork on the bike.

[divernick]

 

SNAP!

[Showtime]

Just somethings that I heard and thought about. Comments and feedback will be appreciated.

 

Lets say the normal travel on a 29er shock is 80mm or 100mm. If you sit neutrally on the bike, the shock should compress with about 10-20mm depending on how hard the shock is inflated leaving you with 60 or 90mm of travel for the trail.

 

On a rigid niner fork, lets say you inflate 2.2 or 2.4 tubeless tyres to 1.8 bar, the tyre should absorb about 15mm of bumps, the carbon fork another 15mm and the 700mm carbon handlebars also about 10-20mm, if you put soft, thick grips on another 5mm, thus you are actually getting 55mm of travel on a rigid fork if configured correctly with the right components where as on a front shock, as described above, the difference is only about 15mm more travel.

 

In theory and in practice, is this correct?

 

How big was the last fish you caught?

[shaper]

need to paint a shadow of a cyclist on the wall riding the bike...

[Ryanpmb]

need to paint a shadow of a cyclist on the wall riding the bike...

Hmmmm... dunno hey...

[Flippa]

What do you mean by "dulls the trail"?

 

Its difficult to describe, you get this dead feeling off obstacles, compared to the Niner fork which pops. It might just be the weight difference, but there is definitely a differencd in feel

[Hairy]

Not perfect but....

you boys are amateurs when looking at the detail ........ you have taken out the top tubes shadow ... that is not a girls step through bike after all.

[Ryanpmb]

you boys are amateurs when looking at the detail ........ you have taken out the top tubes shadow ... that is not a girls step through bike after all.

And the bottle cage shadow is still there! haha.

 

You left a clump of the workstand still attached to the bottle cage though .

[divernick]

you boys are amateurs when looking at the detail ........ you have taken out the top tubes shadow ... that is not a girls step through bike after all.

 

Like I said, not perfect. If someone was paying me to do this, you'd not see anything wrong....Photoshop's my b1tch.