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Am confused by the OO site.
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What length fork for an Inbred?
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normal inbred 100-130mm fork
456- 100-150mm fork
simples
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this is my new build, it's a 456 and is set at 130 currently
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On One will tell you up to 130mm. I'd say 110mm tops, I ran a Scandal (same geometry) with 130mm and it just wasn't very good. The frame's capable of dealing with the stress perfectly well, it just doesn't handle.
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Tis like Tazzy says, I had a 110mm float on mine and it was lovely! Fun little frame! (Also lighter than the 456 if you're still a bit confused re the differences)
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i run 130mm revs on two inbred frames and i'm very happy with 'em, thanks very much.
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I've got some rebas with the spacer taken out taking it to 115, and it handles very well.
The thing you should remember is that the axle to crown length will have the biggest bearing on how it handles, not necessarily the actual fork travel (though the two are related)
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I've always sort of thought of it like this:
scandal was based around 80-100 for optimum race light aluminiuminess (There is no scandium in it anymore!!)
inbred 100-130 general twatting about bike
456 -100-150 twatting about and riding a chopper if using 150mm
I run my inbred ss with 130 fork and short stem and it goes very nicely, have also run it with a much lighter 100mm xc race fork and still goes very quickly but it a little more "interesting" in bits of the peak district
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I run mine (853 Inbred but same geometry) with 130mm revs and its spot on. At first I didn't get on with it till I changed for a seatpost with less layback and moved the saddle forward a chunk (I just had my position wrong). It's great downhill and still good up, I tried 115mm and it was a bit better uphill and not quite as good down, unsuprisingly.
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scandal was based around 80-100 for optimum race light aluminiuminess (There is no scandium in it anymore!!)inbred 100-130 general twatting about bike
The scandal and inbred have exactly the same geometry!
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Oh, I meant to say- when I had my Scandal (which as pypdjl observes, has the exact same frame numbers as the standard Inbred), I did just think "ah well, this is the tradeoff, bikes can't be great at everything"- with the longer fork it was good fun on the descents, it just climbed like it was pissed, but I thought that was acceptable. But, then I tried a Soul and found it was better on the descents, and also better on the climbs. With the Scandal I never stopped spinning the U-turn trying to find some sweet spot.
Don't want this to sound like some brutal criticism, at 100mm the Scandal was brilliant, and I would say better than my Soul, and of course less than 1/3rd the price. If I wanted a racy XC hartail, I'd get another, it was lovely. But it never lived up to its claims as a longer forked hardtail, it just felt like any other 100mm bike with too much fork stuck in the front, like an afterthought.
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Cheers for the info fellas
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