[Closed] convert a 26r fork to a 29r fork..safe?? (pic content0

I wouldn't fancy it

Hell no thank you!!! 😕

Loving the Yank idea of "mud clearance" too...

There was a thing on Pinkbike from Fox after alot of people from the states were doing what you ask and they said it was a BAD idea!!

I bet that the Fox designers left loads of extra alloy on there exactly for that purpose.

fail.

whats the worst thing that can happen? looks like he has a strong through axle.
Id risk it for a biscuit.

no no no

I should elaborate... What's the first thing his tyre is going to hit when he bottoms out the fork? Yes, the bottom of the steerer tube... Goodnight Irene!

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Travel is reduced so it doesn't hit crown/steerer

Holy Moly! Nice that someones got the money to wreck a good set of £800 forks.

Travel is reduced so it doesn't hit crown/steerer

Holy Moly! Nice that someones got the money to wreck a good set of £800 forks.

why...???

why???
big travel forks for a man's bike i suppose........ 🙄 😉

A 29er a mans bike.? I would love to own one but you should never have wheels bigger than your inside leg.

I can see the warranty claim now:
"I was just riding along when an angle grinder fell from the sky and cut a chunk out of the forks"....

F*ck me, it doesn't take an engineering degree to know that's a very bad idea. Numpty

I'm not great at visualising these things, but. The worst thing that's going to happen is that the brace is going to snap. That will leave the fork considerably less rigid, but the stanchions aren't going to leap out of the lowers (it isn't the brace holding them in) and there's no obvious reason why there'd be catastrophic failure of the thru-axle as a result.

I reckon you'd want to stop and get off quite quickly if it cracked through, but I'm not sure you'd die instantly. And in the meantime you've got tyre clearance to jam a big wheel in a fork designed for small wheels. What's not to love? 😀

The lowers are machined out by some engineering company.
Not filed/ ground down by a bloke in his garage.

Would I ride with that fork?
Yes but I'd also keep a very close eye on it.

Would I buy a new fork and go to the expense of getting it machined?
No I wouldn't.

OK, it might not stuff you. But imagine how stupid you would feel if it did

The lowers are machined out by some engineering company.
Not filed/ ground down by a bloke in his garage.

I know plenty of people who do better work in their garage than most engineering companies.

I would imagine if the brace fails it could all go a wee bit wobbly. If you had an impact big enough to snap the weakened brace it's likely to be big enough to twist whole fork, face plant here you come.

I know plenty of people who do better work in their garage than most engineering companies.

Good for you.

I was just responding to the post about an angle grinder. 🙄 😉

stanchions will probably wear out before the fork arch fails 😉

Isnt the offset/rake going to be all to toss anyway? 🙂

I remember reading in one of the mags in about october or november of last year, Fox said "Lots of people have been doing this. Stop it, it's ****ing retarded, you'll be killed".

Id be having a go at the tyre first 😉

Motorcycles with conventional forks dont have an arch at all, and I am on about long travel MX bikes here, (pre upsidedown forks) with the bolt through hub and as long as the stops are built into each lower (so a fork leg doesnt drop off) no reason it wouldnt run with the arch removed, be less stiff but would still work.

However I dont think I would bodge my own forks in such a manner, but then I dont need to as I only run upsidedown forks anyway and they dont have the fork legs attached to each other anyhow.

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It is a pretty stupid idea, but I broke the arch on a set of super Ts after a largish crash and I have to admit it took me a few minutes to work out why my steering was a 'bit vague'. So he's probably not going to die as long as the tyre/crown clearance thing is sorted out.

"Motorcycles with conventional forks dont have an arch at all, and I am on about long travel MX bikes here, (pre upsidedown forks) with the bolt through hub and as long as the stops are built into each lower (so a fork leg doesnt drop off) no reason it wouldnt run with the arch removed, be less stiff but would still work."

But of course, those forks are designed for use that way. Equally you could design a mountain bike fork the same, but when you've got a fork designed for an arch, it's there for a reason.