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I'm toying with the idea of getting one of these, in an attempt to make my Stumpy slightly more All Mountain. I added 130-150 revs a while back to slacken the angles and that I'm very pleased with (set to 140mm). Now after playing jumps and missing out on trips to FOD/Cwmcarn, I'm thinking this could be a worthwhile investment. £150 isnt cheap, but cheaper than an additional bike (and grief from missus).
My angles would steepen slightly again, I'd up front travel to 150, but back would be 140mm (it is currently 140mm/120mm f/r).
I had one of these on my old 01 FSR and it was great, but anyone tried this on 08? Also did it come with ceramic bushing?
Thanks
Anyone?
can you buy a shock with a slightly longer i-2-i? wouldn't that have the same effect?
Its an idea, but am worried about damaging the frame before bottoming the shock.. It would need some calculations, unless someone can suggest what shock will fit and give me 20mm more travel without damage?
what is the current i-2-i of the shock?
be interesting to see what bb height you end up with after all that
why did you miss out on a trip to cwmcarn and FOD because your bike only had 120mm rear travel ? what is it about 20mm of travel and a steeper headangle and makes it more suitable to that kind of riding
imo (and its only an opinion) it will make the bike worse for downhill than it currently is. Low and slack (within reason) equals stable !
Seems you're trying to alter the travel on your bike into something it wasn't designed for.A 120mm f+r travel trail bike into a 150mm /140mm f+r travel one. My advice- ride it as it was designed for @ 120mm, it is perfectly capable and can handle all UK trail riding no problem.If you want a longer travel/different angled bike, buy one.You are already invalidating your warranty and risking breaking your frame by running a fork longer than the max 130mm.
I've been thinking of buying mini DH bike for uplift days and holidays away. My bike will probably handle Cwmcarn as it is, but I feel that I might be asking too much of it. Then thought about extending the travel. But I love hte way it rides at the moment with 140/120 - IMO much better than 120/120. A mate of mine has a carbon stumpy fsr and that came as standard 140/120, so dont think there is anything wrong with that setup.
Think it would probably feel good at 140/120 myself but here is the reply I got from Spesh Tech when I asked myself awhile back.The 2009 model looks exactly the same as the 2008 and came with a 140 fork as standard too.
"Can I fit a longer travel fork on my 2008 Stumpjumper FSR Elite?
Response (Don) 08/31/2009 03:59 PM
"You can only change the travel by 10 mm. If you change it by more than 10 mm you will void your warranty & risk breaking your frame. The 08 Stump Jumper came with a 120 mm travel fork, so any thing longer travel then 130 mm travel will void your warranty."
What?! the 2009 is exactly the same as 2008?
I actually dont give a hoot about the warranty, if, even it has any left. I'm prepared to take my chances. 🙂
Some offset shock bushings with the betd link would slacken it off again
In for a penny'n'all that....
Yeah not concerned about the warranty myself either was more worried about my headtube snapping coming down a black descent 🙂
Probably just covering themselves.
My Stumpy 140/120 has been to the Alps, Fort William etc and been fine as long as I'm smooth on the rougher bits. It's happy doing drops of 1m+ - certainly the bike is still way better than me! I did have a 130mm 04 Enduro which I fitted a BETD kit to take it to 150 along with a 150mm fork and it was horrible. I felt very high and perched on the bike and it felt very unstable due to the high BB. The day I took it to Cwmcarn was a wasted day out.
If there is stuff you won't do with 120mm, an extra 20mm will make no difference IMO.
nice one boriselbrus, thats what I want to hear. Think I'll leave it as is then and work on smoothness