first off, I ride a 17" soul cycles hardline with a 5" 2001 z.1. I'm 200lbs and ride agro-xc, street, and mild DH. I rode this bike at whistler and it was awesome. i could not get the front end up into a manual for the life if me. the fork felt liek it was sucking up all of my energy as i'd pull up. i was contemplating stiffer springs. anyway i was just dicking around in tha garage and decided on a more compact drivetrain; went from 32-18, down to a 22-12, i kept almost the same ratio: ~1.8:1. this also shortened my chain stays by almost 3/4 of an inch. this didnt help nearly as much as i thought it would. i swapped my 5" z.1 for a 4" z.5 and put my CX wheel on it, and instantly i had no issues gettign the front end up, i tried it with a 26" wheel i had laying around (the z.5 is reg. qr, z.1 qr20) and it still rode way better than with the z.1. my question is this: do i put the 4" spring kit in my z.1 or get stiffer 5" springs for it? on another note, i want to get a 29" front wheel for my bike, it'll fit in my z.1 with the right tire, but what rim should i use? it would only see road and XC riding, and would be laced to a diatech swinger hub for use on a rigid fork if needed.
any thoughts, e-speculation would be great
any thoughts, e-speculation would be great
amazing you can tell my riding ability from my verbage. Your excessive sag argument is about as logical as your grammar-to-skills ratio one too. Which Im finding is a trend with you. But listen, a fork sagging an inch or so into its travel rides at the same height as a fork with one inch less travel, right? So pulling back on it is going to have the same result regardless. Its not like its going to make it harder since the fork is decompressing or something.