I have recently fitted one of the current (eg cream) Swift rigid forks to my older (blue) Swift frame. It looks like the fork has a fair bit of clearance so I was wondering if it’d take a (26?) fat front wheel.

Has anyone done this and if so how fat can you go? I’ve heard that it’ll do 29+ too – any feedback on that?

TIA

Not sure about full fat but a knard on a 50mm wide rim fits easily

Ooooo. Did you get the fork new from Sam? Is the A-C the same as the old blue one?

Tried a Knard on a Crest in the blue fork and it’s a no-no.

Thanks.

Got the new fork brand new from the classifieds.

The blue forks came in 485 originally then 470. The cream one is 470 but visibly wider /more clearance hence it’s raised my question.

What would full fat be considered to be? 4″?

bump for the daytime

3.8″ won’t fit but I’ve got a chronicle on a dually in the wider version with plenty of space

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I have recently fitted one of the current (eg cream) Swift rigid forks to my older (blue) Swift frame. It looks like the fork has a fair bit of clearance so I was wondering if it’d take a (26?) fat front wheel.

I tried that with one of the original Swifts. It just rubs even with a very narrow rim (40mm). The tyre was 88mm wide on that rim.

So, unless something has changed, it won’t fit.

It also won’t fit in an On-One carbon fork (tubed one).

For my early experiments a few years ago I ended up bodging together a rigid fork out of a suspension one.

I measured the fork and it’s around 3.9″ clearance around where the tyre would (I think) go so 3.8 being the absolute limit sounds right.

So, by my reckoning 3 or maybe up to 3.3ish would fit ok though I’m now wondering if that’s really wide enough to be worthwhile over a relatively wide 29er tyre.

epicyclo – the cream fork is clearly wider than the blue forks.

The 29×3 chronicle looks very wide compared to the 2.4 ardent on the back. The rim is 45mm tho

And er 😳 I just noticed this on the singular site:

Clearance for a 29×3.0″ (29+) tyre on 50mm rim in the fork.

So it sounds like you’re going with 29+ rather than a 26″ fat which I understood would be closer to a 29er wheel with a normal tyre.