[mykel]

Last gen 66 with a Ti spring and an Andreani piston upgrade would fit a 27.5.
Pretty killer fork. Sold it to a buddy who still runs it on an old-school Uzzi for occasional tomfoolery.

 

[jonKranked]

I forgot about the wandering preload setting upon use



they should have spent less money on tits and more money on design

i think my solution to that was just removing the valve core.

 

[kidwoo]

my solution was buying totems

they were kinda heavy tho

 

[jonKranked]

my solution was buying totems

they were kinda heavy tho

my solution was cheaper.

 

[kidwoo]

my solution was cheaper.

Not for me, I kept breaking my two 66 forks in new and exciting ways

 

[kidwoo]

I would fuck those things up so regularly that when I borrowed a friends bike to try out, I remember sticking my own 66 on it because I was scared of fucking up his 66

 

[jonKranked]

I would fuck those things up so regularly that when I borrowed a friends bike to try out, I remember sticking my own 66 on it because I was scared of fucking up his 66

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i think i see your problem. that looks like a huck to flat.

 

[Westy]

i think i see your problem. that looks like a huck to flat.

He may also be getting arrested by an invisible cop

 

[kidwoo]

i think i see your problem. that looks like a huck to flat.

There's about a 25ft long landing left of that frame

those forks sucked

see JM's earlier posts in this thread. That pressed on piston would literally let the damper rod blow through them

 

[jonKranked]

There's about a 25ft long landing left of that frame

those forks sucked

see JM's earlier posts in this thread. That pressed on piston would literally let the damper rod blow through them

sure, sure.

 

[Jm_]

true story: If you bottom out an og 66 you break the damper rod threads because it was designed by a moron

Is that better than breaking your face?

 

[Jm_]

mine wasn't OG, but it was coil spring with the air preload via schraeder, which had the added benefit of increasing preload while riding. but thankfully it prevented it from ever bottoming out

That was one bizarre ass setup, like how you could have worse stiction than a straight air-spring setup? Once it "moved" like on subsequent bumps, it was ok, but how they made that setup so terrible with the air-spring hybrid is pretty impressive.

 

[kidwoo]

Is that better than breaking your face?

like you can't do both.....pshh

 

[jackalope]

they should have spent less money on tits and more money on design

1. @gonefirefightin strenuously disagrees with this statement.

2. Please tell me you still have/wear that bedazzled freeride belt.

3. Better than a cadaver buttplug I think you can milk a 1.5 steerer into an OG Megatrail, then cut the fork arch off to save weight (minimal impact of fore/aft sitffies) and you're all set!

 

[toodles]

my solution was buying totems

they were kinda heavy tho

Someone should make a lighter one

 

[kidwoo]

2. Please tell me you still have/wear that bedazzled freeride belt.

I wish

looks like flair but those are just the belt holes. The beautiful silver lined belt holes all the way around

 

[kidwoo]

Someone should make a lighter one

I wouldn't want a lighter one because those forks were bad due to the weight.

 

[jackalope]

I wouldn't want a lighter one because those forks were bad due to the weight.

Wasn't there a Fox 36 coil 180 mm with a 20 mm axle not that long ago? Besides not being the obligatory "lighter Totem", was it super heavy? Shitty damper? Flex chicken? Creaky AF crown? All of the above?

 

[jonKranked]

I wish

looks like flair but those are just the belt holes. The beautiful silver lined belt holes all the way around

the one from hot topic?

 

[kidwoo]

the one from hot topic?

I won it in a vert contest at the first warped tour. So yeah, pretty much.

Wasn't there a Fox 36 coil 180 mm with a 20 mm axle not that long ago? Besides not being the obligatory "lighter Totem", was it super heavy? Shitty damper? Flex chicken? Creaky AF crown? All of the above?

That's my current placeholder. But I stuck a talas cart in it. That other thing I ranted about back when I cared.

 

[jonKranked]

I won it in a vert contest at the first warped tour. So yeah, pretty much.

that sounds like a cool guy story bizutch would make up

 

[kidwoo]

you're beginning to bore me

Skateboarding

Who here still skates? I used to skate pretty adamantly... like 25 years ago. Haven't in a long time, but thinking of kinda getting back into it a bit. Back in the day (late 80s/early 90s) I was a street skater, never did any vert stuff. A little bit of street ramp here and there, and never...

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Skateboarding

Who here still skates? I used to skate pretty adamantly... like 25 years ago. Haven't in a long time, but thinking of kinda getting back into it a bit. Back in the day (late 80s/early 90s) I was a street skater, never did any vert stuff. A little bit of street ramp here and there, and never...

ridemonkey.bikemag.com

 

[jonKranked]

you're beginning to bore me

Skateboarding

Who here still skates? I used to skate pretty adamantly... like 25 years ago. Haven't in a long time, but thinking of kinda getting back into it a bit. Back in the day (late 80s/early 90s) I was a street skater, never did any vert stuff. A little bit of street ramp here and there, and never...

ridemonkey.bikemag.com

Skateboarding

Who here still skates? I used to skate pretty adamantly... like 25 years ago. Haven't in a long time, but thinking of kinda getting back into it a bit. Back in the day (late 80s/early 90s) I was a street skater, never did any vert stuff. A little bit of street ramp here and there, and never...

ridemonkey.bikemag.com

beginning? i should try harder.

 

[jonKranked]

nice pics tho. i took up mountain biking because i sucked at skateboarding.

 

[kidwoo]

From the contest

 

[jonKranked]

is that a ponytail?

 

[kidwoo]

pantydroppersayswhat

 

[jonKranked]

panties? more like pantene

 

[Westy]

I won it in a vert contest at the first warped tour. So yeah, pretty much.

Did you get a free tribal tramp stamp too?

 

[rideit]

Is Arnette still in business?

 

[Westy]

Is Arnette still in business?

Guessing 1-800-COLLECT isn't

 

[rideit]

Yeah, I saw that too...I wonder how much money they made before cell phone ubiquity.

 

[rideit]

I guess Arnette still exists..,but what is for sale online are $30.00 or so numbers...

 

[slimshady]

I would fuck those things up so regularly that when I borrowed a friends bike to try out, I remember sticking my own 66 on it because I was scared of fucking up his 66

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You should account for all the contributing factors. Those oversized jeans, soaked in your own sweat, surely added a metric fuckton of weight, thus overstressing the poor fork. I do also understand from that picture you were trying to offset some of the added weight from the belt/jeans combo by running a $15 pisspot helmet.

EDIT: Suggested new game plan:
1. Buy this.
2. Ask @SinatorJ to install a new star nut in it.
3. Ask @englertracing to machine a new tapered steerer.
4. Beers (and Locktite!) with @SinatorJ to install said new steerer.
5. Beer (obviously!).
6. Profit!