I'm looking to put a rack on the front of my karate monkey but Surly are only doing the ogre fork now in non-suspension corrected geometry. Anybody know what effect will this have on the handling of a 2011 monkey?
Think it would make it way too twitchy. I have the ECR fork on mine though. Same length as the KM, but with 5mm more offset, which makes plus tyres handle a bit nicer. Naturally, all the mounts.
I didn't think of the ecr fork. Is yours one of the older monkeys too?
Yeah, I think its 2011 too. The model that still had canti bosses, but the dropped toptube and brace tube of the later models. I think that was one year only. If you run a plus tyre on the front, it just works a leeeeeetle bit nicer than the KM fork and like I say, all the bosses you could ever need.
Another quick one, are the brake mounts the same on both forks?
Sort of. No canti mounts. Also, there was a little quirk with the older KM forks that wouldn't let you use a rotor any larger than 160mm. That was sorted, so I'm pretty sure you can use any diameter you want.
Yeah I'm running bb7s so hoping they'll be a straight swap. Also hoping my current headset has a split crown race too!
Salsa Firestarter may also work. I bit longer (483mm) but more rake