I have a reissue 2007 orange clockwork, the frame is designed for a 100mm fork, i have just bought some second hand *Marzocchi Bomber ETA.
It got me thinking what is the max traval forks i can put on the orange with out making it ride like crap.
I am lookin a DT Swiss forks, but do i go for 100mm or the 130mm? i have seen both for around the £400 mark...
Do i stick with the 100mm or go for some 130mm. I have not yet fit the new forks, so will test them when i have to see how it handles at 120mm, intrestred in the thought of the STW Massive?
* MX Pro 2004 - 105mm to 120mm traval, they are just to get me by until i can get some better ones, cos my old forks broken and deamed to expensive to fix.
Does and one know about the angles of a bike and how they react with bigger forks?
Its weird but I can't find a link from their site, but if you google the year and orange bikes
http://www.orangebikes.com/2007bikes/bikes.php
Looks like they are designed around a long fork (like the current one)
assuming you got the year right
Oops sorry I thought you said P7
WEll I hope the link helps
Hi - I have a 2007 orange clockwork. At present I have an old 2006 set of fox talas forks (90-125 mm of travel) on it. I would say that having the forks at full travel is not great (I normally dial down to 90 mm for long hills, but I usually run around 110 mm of travel for normal rides. I dont really use the full travel option as I find it puts the geometry out a bit too much for me - but you might prefer to ride differently. The clockwork frame is designed around a 100 mm fork so putting an extra 30mm on there is a fair old chunk of extra height...
STS.
Just got back from the first ride on the orange with 120mm forks and i think it rides a lot better with them, so i will be sticking with longer forks for the time being 🙂