Is this a DJ fork?

I’ve got a 2012 Reba RLT 26″ dual air doing nothing. It’s 15 mm axle and currently set up with 120mm travel. I could fit travel reducers to bring it down to 100 or 80mm. That would give a more progressive travel. Does that mean I essentially end up with an old spec Pike DJ without the better damper? The damper doesn’t really matter for dirt jumping.

The newer Pike DJ has 35 mm stanchions as does the Revelation. It’s essentially just an XC fork tuned for big hits. Same thing with a manitou circus – an XC fork tuned for jumping.

Plenty of people used to run rebas for 4x and DJ duties BITD when there was little else to choose from. As long as you’re not casing jumps frequently it will be fine, I’d lower it to 80mm.

The circus has a 20mm through axle, it might be the lowers or other bits on the pike DJ are also more solid. Older rockshox DJ forks were the same but it seems like the pike is just a shortened pike

Marzocchi DJ1s were originally 30mm then 32mm, still with QR options.

BMXs run rigid on 14mm axles.

You’re fine.

Old Pike had a 20mm axle. Loved my old u-turn pike 95-140mm travel. Think I had it on about 4 different bikes!

Not at the same time obvs…

@ads678 was that the dual air 426? I still have that in Rev flavour (and QR), brilliant fork!

Every fork is a DJ fork if you hit DJ’s on it. As long as it fits the frame and can be pumped up you’re fine.

My first DJ fork was whatever came fitted to a fully rigid Carrera in the mid 90’s.

@squirrelking – yeah 426’s I think. Here they are on a Ragley blue pig.

Reba’s will be fine.

I’ve got Reba’s on my DJ bike, absolutely fine.

Before Rockshox released the Argyle most RS riders were running Rebas, Pikes or Revelations for DJ and 4X. They were all pretty much the same fork (Pikes had a 20mm axle, whereas the others were QR) but in different lengths as far as I can remember. Just pump them up rock hard and slow the rebound down and you’ll be fine.

Pikes had a 20mm axle, whereas the others were QR

Revs and Rebas came with 20mm (the size we should all still be running now) axles too. Not that it makes a difference to the OP here