Why Adjust Fork Height Bike? The answer is simply because the front fork height greatly affects how the dirt bike controls. It is also an easy way to tune out some unwanted feedback and instability in higher speeds. Factory dirt bikes are usually set to the middle position and most riders never touch the fork
Can You Raise A 120 Mm Bike To 140? Going from 120 mm up to 140 mm should be perfectly fine. It will probably give you 1 degree of slack angle to your front end and raise your bb height by possibly 1/2′′. Going up to 160 mm on your fork would be really pushing
Can You Put 170 Mm Fork On 160 Mm Bike? The bike will be fine with 160/170/180mm but most forks have travel change options of varying ease. Simples then. Can I put bigger forks on my bike? In general, bikes will happily accept forks that are up to 20mm larger than their designers intended. Feel
How A Mountain Bike Fork Works? The damper cartridge in a fork is a cylindrical chamber, like the center of a toilet paper roll, with a shaft-mounted piston in the middle that oil has to pass through as your suspension compresses into its travel and rebounds back to full extension. How important is a mountain
How Much Travel In Rockshox Pike? The Pike comes in 120mm, 130mm, 140mm, 150mm and 160mm travel options in both 27.5′′ and 29er wheel sizes, with clearance for up to 2.8′′ tyres as standard. Can you reduce the travel on RockShox pike? Take your 5mm allen key and undo the bottom bolts 2 turns. This
How Much Travel Is Too Much Mtb? 160mm of travel is only really needed if you’re hitting big hucks, or you’re smashing really long bouldery fast descents. Do I need 160mm travel? 99% of the time, no. How much travel should you use MTB? We recommend that a trail fork ideally have 34mm stanchions, at
How Much Travel For A Hardtail? It depends totally on your riding style and the intended use. For pretty much XC or dirt jump, go with a 100mm XC or dirt jump fork. For general trail riding a 120 to 130 would work well. For AM to light Free ride a 140 to 160mm fork
How Much Travel Does My Fork Have? If you are trying to measure total travel you will have to let the air out to easily cycle the fork through the entire range of motion. Use a zip tie around the stanchion to make the measurement. Push the zip tie down to the wiper seal and
How Much Travel Can I.I.Crease On Mountain Bike Fork? Not really. Any increase in fork travel will slacken the bike and shorten its reach. Can you have too much travel on a mountain bike? IMO, too much travel for a given place means your suspension moves more because of you than because of the terrain,
How Much Difference Does 10Mm Make Mountain Bikes? 10mm of travel will make a little difference as will a different brand/model fork. You will adjust in no time but it will be noticeable. How much difference does 20mm make? As a rough estimate, each 20mm of travel added will correlate to a one-degree difference in