Blown some seals on my SS bike’s forks. Wanted to ride it this evening, so thought, I’d go and get some rigid forks out of the shed and stick them on. They’re some forks that came with a Mongoose Transfer frame, so might have a trials leaning, or might just be boggo cheap rigid forks, I don’t really know.
Anyway, fitted them no problems, but realised that the front of the bike was very low. Compared fork length with my 140mm forks and they’re about 3″s shorted. Put an inch and a half of spacers in and it should be about ok to ride.
But, is this normal? If I bought some new rigid forks for general trail riding, would they be longer?
Cheers