if i bought a bmx bike that had 24" wheels and bought a front fork for it that was 100mm would it totally **** up the geometry or would it set it more like a urban bike?
I'd reccomend against using a Z5 for a bike that you're going to beat on. Mine (4" version) broke, along with two vertebrae when I hit the ground. Two friends of mine had theirs break (5" versions), they were far luckier. All the broken 'Zocchi's of this type that I've seen have broken the same way: slowly forming cracks where the stancion and crown meet (so you can't see them) and then complete failure when the fork is stressed once the crack has propagated through the stanction wall. I thought that I'd be OK 'cause I was using a 4" version, and I hear that I'm smooth but really:Cash-Money said:a 2001/2002 z.5/exr from marzocchi would work too, they are coil/oil, not elastomer, and could be reduced to 80mm and would be sweet for a cruiser
i had a z1 on my cruiser, and it made the bike a really ****ty ride. the bike simultanously was very twitchy and unstable, but also very slack head angle so the steering was very slow. it wasnt much fun to ride. with an 80mm fork (psylo) thats on there now, its much much more rideable. that setup he has must have taken a lot of a learning curve to ride correctly, it just seems silly to me to force yourself to ride a poorly handling bike.iridebikes said:I've seen a guy with a 24" bmx cruser around seattle. He has standard bmx riser bars, and a RST tripple clamp fork with an 8" hayes front brake and a vee brake in the back. it seems to work ok for him. he's a really good rider. so I'd say its possible, it will make the head angle super slack, but it would work