With pics of your PIMP rigid bikes! Having fitted a rigid fork to my hardtail for Mountain Mayhem (due to the mud), the first time I’ve used one on a mountain bike since 1995, I must say I’m rather enjoying it. Though the 2.4″ Rubber Queen (effectively same dia as a 650b tyre, seems I’ve created a rigid 67.5er!) at low pressures does help, but I’m finding it surprisingly more usable than I thought, even on rough terrain, and have no immediate desire to put the Reba back on the bike… For now anyway.
mboy, get a 29er in the front with a big tyre on it! 69ers are ace. I have a spare front 29er wheel kicking about and some big rubber you can borrow to try if you fancy it
tazzy, cheers for the offer, I’d like to try it actually. Though I’m worried it might chopper the front out a touch, unless I compensated with a shorter a/c fork. Where am yow, I forget?
Gone back to rigid on my Curtis (Salsa Cromotos after reading very good reviews). Done a couple of rides on it and its ace. Not got any pics yet unfortunately…
tazzy, yeah I remembered midlands, whereabouts was it though? Gotta go from Worcs to Nottingham on Wednesday, do I pass you or not? Will have to go to Stourbridge/Merry Hell some point next week too… Or you further up than that?
I haven’t any pictures, but I recently put the X-Lite carbon 15mm Maxle 29er forks on my TransAM. They’re amazing and sort the geometry out perfectly.
Only problem with them is that they’re so light the rest of the bike now feels heavy and One One are doing the Whippet at £250 and it’s 3.5lbs lighter than the TransAM, you can see where this is heading……
I’ve (only) ridden on suspension twice in the last 30 months, and didn’t really get on with it …
[Not that you can tell from this shot, but] My Swift has Salsa Enabler’s (so 135mm OLN at front and rear), and it’s fantastic, so much so, that any other suitable builds/rebuilds upstream of here are also going to have 135mm F & R …