I fancy building one of these up. Got most of the parts I need apart from forks, is anyone running a longer fork on theirs?
If you get one of the original ones they can officially take up to 120mm.
https://www.orangebikes.co.uk/archive/2013/clockwork/
Unofficially I'm sure any will be fine up to 130ish. Nice looking frames up close.
Here's mine as it was in 2014.
Started off as a S (120mm forks) model in 2013 and then I put on a set of Hope Hoops with straight pull hubs/spokes, 1 x 10 XT with a hope extender ring at the rear. Also changed the brakes to Hope X2's.
I think they are great simple bikes and mine has done the coast to coast ride and was the bike that made me sell my old 26er Five. I changed the Five for a Whyte M109 but this lasted less than a year before I bought my Ripley. I still have both the Clockwork and the Ripley.
The Clockwork still runs the Recon Silver forks which are a little heavy but other than that they are the only thing left to upgrade now but they have been on for 4 years and still work fine.
I did have a dropper post on for a while and may still put one back on.
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