Well my dillema is that i currently am riding a dk crusier but i also have a manitou black fork. if i just bought a frame with bmx bb. could i just switch over eveerything and have a dirt jumper with a little bit of suspension. give me your thoughts.
i dunno how that would ride with a suspension fork. you would probably be better off riding it with the rigid fork it came with or getting a frame designed for a suspension fork. but if ya got all the parts, who cares, try it and if it rides like crap switch it back.
as long as you get a bike ment for suspension fork like montashu said you should be fine
also your rear wheel will need a new hub cause mtb and bmx rear spacing is different
Well my dillema is that i currently am riding a dk crusier but i also have a manitou black fork. if i just bought a frame with bmx bb. could i just switch over eveerything and have a dirt jumper with a little bit of suspension. give me your thoughts.
dude the sky is the limit when it comes to bikes... if you wanted you could put on that fork, get a 5 cog freewheel and a bolt on derailer, or a new wheel w/135mm spacing and spread your frame, then get a chain guide such as a blackspire km-1 or a 24 cycles bmx type or dmr block type... but I like the new Redline one the best... it has 14mm axcels and the Marzocchi DJ street (the only suspension fork that you can run pegs with)... mongoose has one now with 26" wheels, 14mm axcels, and a gyro... hey you wanna buy my single speed?... it's a kona Cowan single speed, atomics, and a 04' marz DJ1... nah, why don't you just trade in the dk cruiser for the new dk dirt jumper... nah get a bullet... nah get a Banshee... nah get a demo 9... nah get a v 10... no, wait a RMX... no, make that an Armegeddon... naw go blow it on crack and hookers... psyche!.... ah hell just do what you want... what do I know anyway...
it might work... there i have seen a kid who rides a race-style cruiser with some beefed up wheels and a fork around town here and he seems to like how it rides
There used to be a kid on this board acctually how had a crusier with a fork... but i forget his name
I just don't understand girl jeans. I know BMX'rs tend to pride themselves on being the hardass's around the bike community.......... that said, how tough can you really be in girl jeans? I'm sorry, I won't take bmx serious until they take off the damn guess jeans designed in the late 80's and put on some dickies!
There have been a few people on this board who converted at DK 24" to use a suspension fork and MTB parts. If I remember correctly it worked pretty well. That was a while ago though, I don't think the threads are here anymore.
I just don't understand girl jeans. I know BMX'rs tend to pride themselves on being the hardass's around the bike community.......... that said, how tough can you really be in girl jeans? I'm sorry, I won't take bmx serious until they take off the damn guess jeans designed in the late 80's and put on some dickies!
Well my dillema is that i currently am riding a dk crusier but i also have a manitou black fork. if i just bought a frame with bmx bb. could i just switch over eveerything and have a dirt jumper with a little bit of suspension. give me your thoughts.
Ok, guys stop the pointless bashing, he isn't asking about putting the fork on his bmx frame. He's asking about putting the parts on a NEW mtb frame. (but cruisers ride ok with suspension forks if you do it right anyway)
It should all transfer over except for the hubs, but the stem, bars, seat tube cranks, bb, (as long as you get a mtb frame with a American bb) seat tires, etc etc should work
i have heard from alot of people if it didn't come with suspention don't put it on there. bad after effects, like bad handling and the fork will not compress right.
Don't do it. Putting a larger fork on your bike will throw off the geometry, and could very easily snap the head tube right off the frame. This is why you see some DHers with incrediby oversized forks running a 24 in the front, to bring the geometry back to normal. You would be much better off getting a hardtail mountain bike, and putting a fork on that, like it is meant to be.
Ok, guys stop the pointless bashing, he isn't asking about putting the fork on his bmx frame. He's asking about putting the parts on a NEW mtb frame. (but cruisers ride ok with suspension forks if you do it right anyway)
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