9. Can I run a suspension fork on the Krampus?
No. Well, mostly no. You could certainly carry one under your arm if you like. There isn’t clearance for the Knard on most forks in the bridge regions – she’s a tall tire friends. And even if you do get one that just barely clears, that ain’t enough in our book to say it works. We don’t recommend it. Hopefully, we can talk Trevor into sleeping around with the fork folks in Vegas at Interbike. Maybe that will lead to something other than a bad rash. This would be a good place to mention that the rigid fork is 120mm suspension corrected.
many people have done it before no problem, the official line from Surly when released back in 2012 was no, it won’t take suspension forks. I think that this may have been more to do with availablity than anything else. I would love to put a 120mm 29+ er fork on mine but they are few and far between and too pricey for me.
The new version that came out this year had suspension forks on it at product launch and initial testing, I believe they never had the rigid forks ready at the time.
Interbike 2016 Outdoor Demo: Lucky 7