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  • Fork Length and head angle
  • deepo
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    Anyone out in the stw wilderness know how much you change your head angle when fitting longer forks or winding talas up and down etc?

    eg. 15mm=1 degree????

    geetee1972
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    It’s more like 1 inch/25mm to 1 degree

    cynic-al
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    17mm sagged from a calculation I did once.

    I think it’s pretty transferable to all mtbs, though someone did call me on it, turned out to be yet another “you’re wrong because I say you are even though I offer no explanation” type.

    geetee1972
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    Sounds like Al has worked this out whereas I’ve just quoted from ‘urban myth’ 😀

    Unless someone has a better answer, I would go with Al

    Klunk
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    cynic-al
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    I should add “give or take a mm or 2” in case the pedants arrive…

    jameso
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    It’s 20mm per degree for normal range of fork lengths / head angles.

    deepo
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    cheers folks 😀

    soobalias
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    al is wrong, totally and completely wrong, so wrong in fact, i cba to correct it.

    cynic-al
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    Oh no, now jameso’s said that, I might have to calculate it again…

    jameso
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    Nah ) 17mm, 20mm, it’s close enough for fork-length faffing. If I lay out a bike geometry and change the fork length alone, that’s what I get.

    TandemJeremy
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    sagged or unsagged?

    geetee1972
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    sagged or unsagged?

    TJ has a point. 20mm of sagged fork height will give more of a change in head angle than 20mm of non-sagged fork height.

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