456 Carbon with 100mm forks?

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456 Carbon with 100mm forks?
Top.Dog
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Anybody ride one?

Finally got mine built up, and have fitted 100mm forks (as i already had them) but i can’t seem to get the riding position right. feels a bit head down arse up.

I’ve only been for short rides on it, so maybe i’ve not given it a chance.

Posted 12 years ago

chojin
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I had a steel 456ss with 100mm forks – seemed good to me?
Maybe experiment with different riding positions…

Posted 12 years ago

PeterPoddy
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456 Carbon with 100mm forks? Well, unless you like ’em very racy, I wouldn’t if I were you. I thought 140mm was a bit short on mine, TBH, and the front end is still pretty low with 150s……

Posted 12 years ago

Top.Dog
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what length of stem / rise of bars did you use?

Posted 12 years ago

chojin
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at 100mm travel it was quite stem length sensitive, but I whacked an 80mm jobbie on and it seemed much improved – any longer and the handling felt very wallowy

edit: oh, with a 6 degree rise

Posted 12 years ago

dufresneorama
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Steel 456 here rides very well at 95mm. But do have loads of spacers and high rise bars. Actually feels too high when I wind out the forks to 140mm. Think I need to tinker more to find happy medium.

Posted 12 years ago

Top.Dog
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it was a racey feel i was looking for.

i too have lots of spacers at the moment, maybe need higher bars

Posted 12 years ago

chojin
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I did have riser bars on – forgot to mention that 🙂

Posted 12 years ago

ahwiles
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…feels a bit head down arse up…

…it was a racey feel i was looking for…

job done then.

Posted 12 years ago

andyl
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I ran mine with 100mm and still do occasionally (U-turn) and it feels good.

Remember the heat tube and stack height is pretty low so you need to run a lot of spacers to get the stem/bars up to ‘normal’ height. Especially if you have the 16″ frame.

Posted 12 years ago

davidtaylforth
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Using long travel forks to get the bars to the correct height sounds like a rediculous idea. Just use stem spacers/stem with some rise/high rise bars.

Posted 12 years ago

Top.Dog
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thanks for the input.

40mm risers ordered to replace the 20mm ones i’m using at the moment, and i’ll continue to run with the stack of spacers

Posted 12 years ago