Fox Goes Wide: New Fox Float 34 27.5+ announced

For have unveiled a new fork designed to cater to those of a 27.5+ persuasion, the 2016 Factory 34 Float 27.5+.

In all its glory

Touted as ‘blurring the lines between trail and fat bikes’, the fork is expressly designed to work with the more substantial of rim. And tyre.

110mm wide

The key change to accommodate these stouter wheels is a wider crown and lower leg design, which goes hand in hand with the new front dropout spacing du jour, 110mm (as opposed to the current standard of 100mm). According to Fox, this increased width ‘improves brace angle and wheel stiffness for larger wheels’, which also sounds like good news for 29er riders.

They’ll have a 51mm offset, a 4th generation FIT4 closed cartridge damper, and a new FLOAT air spring (it says here).

The forks will be available in a range of travels from 110 to 150mm. We’ve got no details on release dates yet, but we’ll let you know when we know more!

Look at the width on that…

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Comments (5)

akiraakira March 12, 2015 at 4:09 pm

Wondering if you could squeeze a 26×4″ in there.

NorthwindNorthwind March 12, 2015 at 4:53 pm

110mm fork spacing- what, like a 20mm maxle then? Well I’m glad we killed THAT standard.

honourablegeorgehonourablegeorge March 12, 2015 at 5:09 pm

I’d be tempted for the mud clearance.

110mm (at least in this 15mm guise) means a new hub though, right?

jamesjames March 12, 2015 at 6:43 pm

“110mm fork spacing- what, like a 20mm maxle then?”
I thought that at first

But if you think about it a 110 x 20mm is ‘effectively a 100mm hub’, in as much as the disc brake, and the spoke circle diameters are the same as on a 5/9/15 x 100mm hub
Whereas a 110mm x 15mm everything is moved out using up the extra 10mm width on a new hub, making it a (yet another) fork/hub standard all of its own

TheGhostTheGhost March 13, 2015 at 9:16 am

So could you use this as a normal 29er fork as well?