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I need some straight steerer forks for my electric tandem project. Anyone who has tried to get hold of any recently will know there aren’t many decent second hand ones around and those that are were already expensive pre Covid and have now gone off the chart!
I’m not really bothered too much about spec, anything would be a big improvement over the current rigid and ones. Obviously something with fairly thick stanchions, no 30mm noodles and air not coil so I can get correct sag for 2 people, a motor and a battery
Ebay has some cheesy ‘air bike’ brand forks that look very much like older RS ones. I realise they won’t be great but will they snap? For 100£ for a cheap but new set vs some 10 year old Rebas with shot seals and no oil inside since 2014 for 300£ is a hard one.
Has anyone tried any of these eBay specials? Did you die?
Look at the higher end Suntour forks. I put some Epicons on an old hardtail, they work fine as an XC trail fork. You can definitely get 32mm stanchions with a straight steerer, not sure about the 34mm stanchion models.
https://www.starbike.com/en/sr-suntour-epixon9-29er-suspension-fork-100mm/
Epicons look like a goer maybe, that link doesn’t have stock but spotted a set on eBay for 80 quid
The raidons have a max weight of 50kg though! That’s a good 110kg short
Will message RSF as well, cheers!
I've got some straight chromoly steerer black Suntour Durolux here if that's any use? 35mm stanchions, 20mm axle, adjustable travel from 120mm to 160mm.
Most dj forks might do the job. The sag I get out of manitou circus is minimal (maybe 10%, and I'm 80+kg). Stout as, too
Thanks Kayla1, pm incoming!
So would say that tandems handle better with long offset forks.
Perhaps more than 50mm (2inches) of offset, as suggested by Tony Oliver in his book Touring Bikes.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/matching-fork-to-frame.205301/#lg=post-4464435&slide=0
in the same position - ideally want some new, 1&1/8th straight steerer, 26", 130mm forks, to save an otherwise perfectly fine dialled bikes prince albert. Will have a look at the better Suntour models as previously discounted those
I may have some old 150m Fox 36RC2 in the shed... 20mm axle and fairly beefy. Not been ridden in a long time so could be persuaded to let them go?
29" straight steerer 100mm Judy Gold. 226 from Europe (+taxes)
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/rockshox-judy-gold-rl-29-solo-air-100-qr-953124\
26" straight steerer 80-120mm. There's a whole page of em here... from £100-220 (+taxes).
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/shop/26-suspension-fork-80-110mm-820/l-24
The 120mm straight steerer Reba 26" in at end of March.
https://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/rockshox-reba-rl-26-solo-air-831669
@wildhunter2009 cheers, will drop you a pm!
@milfordvet I did see BD had a load, the Judy doesn’t fit my spec and the Reba is a lot for what it is and a long wait but the Recon is my backup plan for 130 quid. It ain’t great but it’s brand new I suppose
A bit left field, but RockShox used to make a Boxxer (Ride U-Turn?) that you could wind down to something like 130mm. Certainly would be stiff enough 😀