Wold Ranger
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Fork Travel
IMHO while it looks awful, we at Retro towers oft' forget, (jump bikes accepted), that the reason for a long fork is not to achieve 100 plus (170plus??) of "upwards" travel, but to be able to run a lot of sag so the front end tracks the ground, while the bars remain relatively parallel to the ground.
I ran a 140 mm fork on a bike this Summer and ran it with 50 percent sag, so it gave a really smooth ride both over concave and convex trail contours. It looked lary at rest though.
Static all these forked bikes look too front high, but with a couple of inches or so of sag, with rider aboard look a lot better and have a manageable geometry. So it can be possible to run a 100mm fork and set sag to 50mm thereby putting the geometry back to the correct angles.
IMHO while it looks awful, we at Retro towers oft' forget, (jump bikes accepted), that the reason for a long fork is not to achieve 100 plus (170plus??) of "upwards" travel, but to be able to run a lot of sag so the front end tracks the ground, while the bars remain relatively parallel to the ground.
I ran a 140 mm fork on a bike this Summer and ran it with 50 percent sag, so it gave a really smooth ride both over concave and convex trail contours. It looked lary at rest though.
Static all these forked bikes look too front high, but with a couple of inches or so of sag, with rider aboard look a lot better and have a manageable geometry. So it can be possible to run a 100mm fork and set sag to 50mm thereby putting the geometry back to the correct angles.