Currently running my geared On-One Scandal 29er on 80mm Rebas, is it worth changing the travel to 100mm? Discuss!
I've run mine with both, now settled for a compromise of 90mm (the joys of reba frankenforks made from lots of different models) but 80mm wasn't performance limiting even in the peak and 100 felt a wee bit too high for a proper head down fast beasty which is what the scandal was meant to be (to me anyway, I'm sure someone will be along to tell you that 130mm is fine) 😀
I pretty much asked this a couple of day ago. Got 3 answers, 80 is best, 100 is best and see which you fancy.
Interested to see if there's anymore feedback here 🙂
I run mine at 100mm (also Reba's) and so far have found it to be great. However I do agree with Tazzy that the front end is high so I am going to flip my stem over so it has a -6 degree angle to see if that helps.
It does eat everything up at the moment though!
Got Reba's on the front of my 29er Inbred (same geometry as the Scandal), had them set at 80mm originally and the front end felt a bit low.
Pulled them apart, changed them to 100mm, now the bike feels spot on.
I should point out though that the steerer on my Reba's is a very short 175mm, so only 1 5mm headset spacer on there, my stem is very nearly flat (6 degrees I think), and I'm running 28" wide flat bars on mine. If I were running bars with a rise on at all, I'd have to swap my step upside down I reckon, which pretty much mimics what others have already said.