Downhill bikes. Tell me about them…

no one makes a decent 7″ dual crown fork

I’ve got a mint ~7″ 2003 Boxxer World Cup I will probably be selling in a few months time if you’re interested 🙂

2004 Boxxer Teams over here – 7″ of buttery smooth lovelyness.

uk trails are generally smoother (fort bill maybe excepted) and less vicious on a bike than stuff in the alps\canada though.

Not really, bikes tend to get hammered more in the Alps etc because you are generally on a holiday, cramming several weeks riding back home into a few days.

Currently in a very wet morzine, on my mark 1 nomad and can,t say it holds me back on any trail. I,m no superstar rider but can keep up with most full on dhillers on pleney and the like. I think the differences is I can only do about 4 runs before I,m shaken to bits and have to have a rest whereas I bet they can keep going. Only a few sections have I really wished for a bigger fork and slacker angles. That said if I had the money and space I would buy an old dh frame and swap the parts over once a year

I’ve already got a couple of older sets of 7″ DC DH forks lying doing nothing. WTFs your point?

Xiphon – Does your LTs Geometry look as sorted as this one’s?

Perhaps Orange were way ahead of their time?

Seems we still haven’t reached the time “they” were thinking of 🙄

I think Orange design bikes for the ‘fun’ side of riding.

I know Steve Wade rides most days in Switzerland over the summer and in Spain during the winter, in places where there is no uplift. That’s why bikes like the Patriot exist and why the 224 will actually climb (albeit slowly) if you whack a long post in it.

the bb height on that LT looks impressive – no pedal strikes there!. like my old patriot. proper fun bike.

I’ve already got a couple of older sets of 7″ DC DH forks lying doing nothing. WTFs your point?

Dunno, sort of sounded like you were after a set of 7″ DC forks and complaining none were available so I offered a solution.