[Closed] 456 with 6" forks?

Keep the maguras, 150mm forks on a hardtail are **** for anything other than riding downhill.

People told me the same about the 2nd generation z1's in the early 2000's, 5" travel on a hardtail, you must be mad! IMO its more to do with bar height, with flat bars and droped stem it feels like my old 80-100mm XC bike did with raisers, just with more travel when you need it. Just wondered if anyone had experience with the 456 with long forks specificaly (who had the prototype 567?).

rode mine with forks at 6 inch all the time, it was mostly fine, with the only problems being, as you'd expect, a bit lazy up hill (like me).

Depends how you like to ride to be honest. I use my bfe for some dirt jumps aswell as xc/dh. I use 110mm travel cos I hate wallowing about in 150mm of travel when your trying to do any sort of manouvre.

Got 140 Revs on, which by my reckoning is 5.5". No travel adjust, took the lock-out off as I never used it. Rides fine, climbs fine, only issue is adjusting to the lack of rear travel (other bike is a Nomad) not thinking the front is too tall/raked out/vague/whatever. Did a chilterns loop yesterday (rolling XC) and had a blast.

On Ones have always had (too) short head tubes so keeping the front end comfortably low is not a problem.

If your 150mm forks are wallowing about then they are either poorly set up or crap.

A decent 160mm fork on a hardtail frame designed for it will be ace... plugging one on a frame designed for 120-140mm may work... or it may chopper the bike out by raising the bottom bracket and making the seat angle so slack that the handling is rubbish (been there & done that).

I ran mine with some Fox 36 150mm talas's.

Worked great, but needed a fair bit of sag and the obvious wind-down for climbing.

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messiah, ("wallowing" may not have been the correct word) but DT's right, you obviously just don't ride anything like him.