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  • Alp Forks – advice please!!
  • OrangeAnimal
    Free Member

    Hopefully doing my first trip to the Alps (Les Arcs) next summer and wondering what fork to stick on my Orange 5. Have been advised 160 travel coil Lyrik, any others for consideration. Budget is an issue, I was hoping to get sorted for £250 (2nd hand obviously).

    coolhandluke
    Free Member

    140mm Coil Pikes will be fine and very affordable s/h these days. Pretty bombproof.

    or if the budget stretches, Fox 36’s or lyrics I’d say. Can the 5 handle 160mm forks? Doubt you’ll get 36’s or lyrics for £250 though unless they are very second hand and therefore probably problematic out there, which is the last thing you’d want.

    legend
    Free Member

    What have you got just now?

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    OrangeAnimal
    Free Member

    Float R 32, 140 travel

    flyingfox
    Free Member

    What’s wrong with them?!

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    Float R 32, 140 travel

    sounds perfect. i’d be more concerned about alpine saddle angle.

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    I’d get some 2nd hand 2006/7 marzocchi 66 rcx2’s with 150mm of travel. Nice and plush and dead bobmproof so they wont fail on you when you’re out there. Can probably get em for £150 2nd hand. I used them in the alps a couple of years ago and they were great.

    DrP
    Full Member

    Save your 250 quid and don’t worry about it!
    Seriously!

    DrP

    randomjeremy
    Free Member

    If doing DH at anything above a mince get some 160s on there

    trailmonkey
    Full Member

    160 seems a bit excessive on a 5 no ?

    is it just xc you’re doing or full on dh ?

    if it’s xc then whatever’s on your 5 right now will be just fine.

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