I have a Surly 1x1 (made for 80mm travel fork) and I am running a 100mm Reba Dual Air on it. I am yet to set up the sag etc, but the front end looks slack. I have been riding rigid for a long time and it may just be because it looks odd to me, it may not be an issue. Will 20mm really make that much of a differnce?
What could go wrong?
you will die
You will unknowingly summon the four horseman of the apocalypse/ Beetlejuice/ Candyman*
Then you will die.
*delete as required
I read on tinternet your frame will explode into a million pieces.....then you'll die.
with all this imminent death, its amazing we find time to ride bikes at all.
Might be slightly harder to ride uphill, the front end may wander. The headtube may snap off due to leverage forces and you'll die.
When the bike explodes you die as shards of steel/aluminium/carbon slowly make their way to your heart. It's not a good way to go, so I advise you put it back as you found it.
Soulrider cracked his Soul recently running too-long forks on it.
I guess you never know! May affect handling as above too, you can move your saddle forward to help climbing.
I've been running Rebas at 120mm on an ancient Superlight for about 3 years.
I have been dead sometime.
It will be noticeably harder to pedal up hill and will get you a noticeably bigger turning circle; if your frame still has a warranty, fitting a bigger fork will likely void it. But I doubt you will break it unless you plan to ride it lot harder than you would have before (it's generally not the fitting of a bigger fork per se that makes it break, but the fact that folk fit bigger forks to ride more demanding terrain).
My forks exploded taking out the whole street, just after fitting them to my frame!
Lucky I don't live anywhere near Israel!
You have been warned
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With the exception of an orange C16 that I ran with the original rigid forks for a couple of years, every single bike I've had since about 1992 has had longer forks than the frame allows. Though I've killed chainstays and downtubes from my idiosyncratic line choices, I'm yet to destroy a headtube.
Given that it's a Surly and therefore so dense that light bends around it, I reckon strength shouldn't be an issue.
There is probably more than 20mm difference in axle to crown height between different forks manufacturers eg. my AM1's @ 130mm travel are 15mm longer axle to crown than my 145mm Nixons !
There is however no question that your Surly 1x1 will outlive you no matter what forks you use as they are indestructible. 😉
i been using 130 z1 freerides on my hummer for 7years.rides sweet
Are you aware that the reason there is a discrepancy between matter and anti matter in the universe is because someone fitted longer forks than their frame could support and the fundamental rules of the universe were fractured in the resulting cataclysmic explosion?
Its been proven just recently with the Large Hadron collider...
Thank you all. I have in the time since startinbg this thread put all of my wishes for my funeral down and selected the appropriate music.
I will let you know how I get on after Saturday if I am still alive to tell the tale.
If this should be my last thread I would like to invite you all to my impending funeral and ask that you leave the smoked Salmon sandwiches at my wake for those that knew me on a personal level first, after that you can help yourself. Cynical and Andyhilton please do not fill up on the Volevontes as they have to go around everyone. Can some one make sure that all of my ex girlfriends that attend cry the sufficent ammount and recall me as the greatest love and lover of their lives.
The Lake Peigneur disaster was actually caused by someone putting bigger forks on than the frame would allow. Look it up. It's true.
tommid great response... 🙂
is he dead yet?
Just chomping down a salmon sarnie... tinned ffs.. he said smoked, maybe he meant smoke damaged.
I heard that fitting longer forks than recommended actually averted the Cuban Missile Crisis...
The Lake Peigneur disaster was actually caused by someone putting bigger forks on than the frame would allow. Look it up. It's true.
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Its a surly, probably won't hurt, it'll handle like a shopping trolley mind.
I did this to a bike and it was fine. It was a little different, but nothing major.
i run U turn Pikes on an Intense meant for 100mm forks it is 110 mm for climbs and 140 for down. Steering is impaired as is pedal strike but itt is fine in a straight line!
The credit crunch happened around the same time my mate put 120mm forks on a frame that is recommended for 100mm forks. Coincidence?