Anyone done it? How does it ride? Is it too sketchy or similar to something like a Scandal setup?
Like the idea of the Whippet but feel the frame might not take the jumps and bigger hits that well?
I believe whippets are allowed upto 120mm forks. Even though I ride a whippet I can't vouch for them being able to take drops
Whippet just seems a bit skinny for me to trust it! Like idea of burlier frame if going carbon and the Carbon 456 allows a normal BB so my old XT/Race Face chainset should work....slightly worried about chainsuck mentioned elsewhere on here though!
I've ridden a 456 with 100mm fork and 130mm fork and much prefer the 130mm. With hindsight, the 100mm seemed too small for it
I have an Inbred with a 100mm fork and I've done a lot of "harder" XC stuff on it, and it's more than fine.
Was in the Alps last year and saw a rider on an Inbred with 140mm forks on it, going down the DH runs and he said it was fine - that I wouldn't do 😯
Is the geometry on the Whippet not identical to the Scandal/Inbred? If so, 100mm will be ideal.
Northwind - I think it is but then they have 2 places on website for 100 mm forks. One saying 71.5 head angle and another 68. 68 sounds ideal, 71.5 doesnt! And also concerned about a really low front end after reading elsewhere about a really short headtube.
Maybe a candidate for a slackset headset?
Anyone know?
I've run my ti456 on 100mm rockshox and 140mm fox. It looks better with the fox and is better downhill however I do like it with the 100mm forks for general xc and pootling about. It also seems more stable at slower speeds with the 100mm. I'm just thinking of fitting the spacers to my fox forks to take them to 120mm and try that. Hope that helps.
I run my 456 (even though it says "inbred" on it) with u-turns 95-140
Most of the time I run it at 95mm, feels good and climbs well. Only really wind it out to 140mm when I take photos of it! 😀
I quite often ride my C456 at 100mm. Unfortunately my forks only go up to 130mm as it would be nice to try more but for general singletrack and pootling 100mm is fine. Not too twitchy and if I hadn't tried the 130mm I certainly wouldn't have minded being only 100mm.
And yes it can take jumps and drops etc no problem. No idea about the whippet.
I have a whippet and wouldn't fancy it for throwing aboot. Not even from a breaking it perspective, more that it's quite a head-down ride and doesn't seem amenable to that sort of riding.
456 seems a more versatile bet to me, but you need to weigh it up. Is it:
Damn that's ugly, but I think I can live with it, or
Damn that's ugly, kill it with fire.
It was the second for me, and I got a free pompino with the whippet, and I have a Bfe already, so that swung it.
