Thinking of buying some fox F series forks, ideally a 120mm but the 100mm versions are much cheaper on line. Do you think I'll really notice the difference? They are for a hardtail. I'm used to riding beefy full sussers at the mo.
I upped my Rebas from 100 to 120 on my Blizzard, found it made a bigger difference than you'd expect.
Just buy some better/cheaper forks that do hae 120mm of travel if thats what you want. You can notice a difference, whether its better or worse is i gues upto you
I went from 80mm to 100mm a few weeks ago on my F29 forks and both noticed & appreciated it on the trail center routes. Less so on my normal flat-ish trails hereabouts.
PS - remember you can convert some Fox forks upwards by 20mm! Mine are a prime example, 80mm becomes 100mm. Becomes 80mm again if you wish. Be careful which one you buy as it's Mojo who'll know if you can do this as they differ from year to year of manufacture.
100mm could be better - depends on the frame you put them on.
Well maybe not, it really all depends on what the bike is and what you’re hoping to do on it…
20mm extra travel probably make close to naff all difference to the majority of riders, it’s probably less than 0.5deg more slackness in the HA, 20mm (strangely enough) higher bars and ~10mm higher at the BB (all approx)…
I presume your going with the Floats for more mile munching as opposed to bouncing down stuff super fast, in which case 100mm will give plenty of trail comfort and enough travel for a bit of occasional “Gnarr” behaviour IMO…
There was a time (not that long ago really) when 100mm was considered a long travel fork, people used to manage with far less bounce, 20mm more ain’t that big a deal really…
I'd say you'd notice, you could run a little more sag which would make the bike feel more planted over the rough fast stuff, esp as its going on a HT and you're best off riding the front
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