[sstalder5]

This Bike:
'08 Banshee Wildcard w/ DHX 5.0 Coil

With one of these forks:
'08 Manitou Travis triple

or '08 Boxxer Race

 

[sstalder5]

fr forum is ultra slow today...

 

[4xBoy]

Lazy Sunday.

Nice bike, not sure which fork is better, someone will chime in soon to say the RS in better though.

 

[ilikemybike011]

What are you going to run those at? Like 180mm right?

Be sick to see a Wildcard built up with some nice dual crowns.

 

[sstalder5]

What are you going to run those at? Like 180mm right?

Be sick to see a Wildcard built up with some nice dual crowns.

the manitou comes in 203 or 180mm and the boxxer comes in just 203mm i want to try to run it at 203 so with a dhx 5.0 coil in the rear it mighkt work

 

[juanbeegas]

Does Banshee warranty still cover the Wildcard if it's used with an 8" fork? I was thinking of setting up a WC with a Boxxer Race as well, but lowered to 7".

 

[Nice Guy Mike]

Why a double crown on a Freeride bike? Its a bit of overkill and added weight. A lighter 6-7" single crown is a better choice. Manipoo Travis is garbage compared to the RS Boxxer. I think a Totem or some other lightish single crown is the way to go for the Wildcard.

 

[stumpjump]

Why a double crown on a Freeride bike? Its a bit of overkill and added weight. A lighter 6-7" single crown is a better choice. Manipoo Travis is garbage compared to the RS Boxxer. I think a Totem or some other lightish single crown is the way to go for the Wildcard.

I will second Mike on the Totem opinion. Its an awesome performing air forks and requires really little tuning to perfect. My boy's been running one on this rig for a while and he loves it. I've been running the spring version and I am really happy with it too. An 8 inch dual crown fork on that bike is going to be way too much for that. Unless you are running DH you wont need 8 for it, so I would look into the totem seriously. Other than that nice Bike.

 

[nwd_26]

A guy I know actually ran a Wildcard with a 2005 888, racing DH (before he got his Scythe). He did pretty well on it, considering it's a "slopestyle" frame and a 3 year old fork. That said...I think his 88 had 180mm or so travel, so 203 might be a bit too much. But what would a Banshee be without an inch of two too much travel out front?

 

[sstalder5]

I like the totem and all, but I am one of the few people that has been treated well by manitou. I dont know if its because I take care of my stuff or that ive just been extremely lucky. the only thing theve ever done wrong in my book is chosen a name that rhymes with poo :huh:

and if i do run a double crown it will probably be a 180mm travis triple

and if i dont it'll be like a used Mars 66 or some other coil fork. I'm just not a fan of air shocks

 

[Flyingfish]

my travis is doing ok.

 

[greenblinker]

i have a wildcard

with that being said, there is no point to use a dc fork - actually your killing the purpose of the bike itself

if you love manitou - run a travis sc and be done

also, i think 180mm on the bike is again to much travel and slacks it out. the bike works better with a 160-170mm in my opinion (and about 85% of the people with wildcards since they run this type travel fork as seen in pics)

 

[manimal]

yeah, i 2nd the single crown option for that bike...especially for where we live. a dh fork is way overkill for 90% of the local riding and the frame geo isn't designed around a long travel fork anyway so it wouldn't really help much on the DH side of things. i run my bottlerocket at 160mm in the front now and it handles much better, even on true DH, than it did when i had a 180mm fork up front.