I’ve currently got some 140mm Sektors fitted to my Mondraker Vantage, but have just picked up some brand new Yaris off Amazon for £250! These are at 160mm and my question is are these too long travel for my hardtail?
I ride a mixture of enduro trails, trail centres and places like Elan Valley – am I better off reducing travel to 140mm or leave as is at 160mm and I won’t notice too much difference?
I know I can get an airshaft to change – just wondered whether it was worth it?
Thanks
David

I had a hardtail with 160mm forks and though it was good, I did find the contrast between fully extended and compressed made it a bit of a see-saw in very rough terrain. Now got a P7 with 140mm Pikes and I think it’s spot on for everything – from 30+ milers through to silly steep stuff and fast, rough natural Pennine trails. I’d be sticking with 140mm, personally. Might as well try the 160s if you’ve already bought them though.

Give it a swing, if it doesn’t work for you, you can probably reduce the travel with a new air shaft, it’s not big bucks or hard to do with a bit of research.

If still under warranty be careful and try to find out what they say is the max fork travel. If you exceed this it usually voids warranty. I’d say 160 is a lot for a hardtail but won’t know till you try it.

If 160mm is too big, I found this 100mm Yaris

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOYOTA-YARIS-MODEL-CAR-RED-1-36-1-38-SCALE-HATCHBACK-5-DOOR-WELLY-CA49720W-K8-/322325702804?epid=2039562776&hash=item4b0c1be894:g:0pcAAOSwImRYJrGq

Try it.

Personally, I don’t like loads of travel on a hardtail. Dropping the forks to 140mm is a piece of cake.

Got a link to them on Amazon please !!

Thanks all. Will look at dropping the travel to 140mm.
Renton – they were in the Amazon warehouse as new and unused but only one set and in 27.5 flavour

They’ll be useless, you may as well sell them to me for 200

Got 170mm X-Fusion Vengeance on my Shan and it’s fine

http://singletrackworld.com/reviews/review-fox-36-fit-rc2/

I’ve been running 160mm on my Vantage for years. Is proper good. Yari is an ace fork too IME.

I’ve just bought a Shan with 160mm forks. Best setup I’ve ever ridden. So 160mm is perfect on some bikes. Maybe not on others. I’ve had 100, 130, 140, 150 and now 160mm on various hardtail, and it’s just kept getting better and better. The Shan climbs better than any of my previous hardtails too.