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I bought my son a Felt Nine 60 recently. As usual with Felt, it looks nice, and the bike was reasonably specced given the RRP (£600). As soon as I got it out of the box though, it was obvious that it needed to go on a radical diet. Wheels, I have a very light front wheel floating about in the shed so that should be fine, I'll take my time sourcing a rear.
Meanwhile, the most obvious lump of weight is the forks. They are a very basic Suntour 100mm fork and they weigh a ton. There is no way I can discover of setting up sag on these forks and they blow through most of the travel if you even look at them so.... we are going to get a pair of rigid forks for him, preferably carbon, for Christmas.
From looking at numerous pairs of carbon forks for myself One One, Niner, Kinesis etc, I know that the axle to crown distance is seldom constant. Now, so I don't want to lumber him with too steep or slack a head angle so I was wondering whether anyone out there knew if I should simply measure the a/c distance on the Suntour (without him sitting on it), with him sitting on it or what?