Timeline for Install suspension forks on non-suspension bike
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 17:15 | history | edited | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 13:56 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | You mean it gives a different geometry. If you think that's bad then explain what's bad about it. Just because it's different from what the original designer of the bike had in mind, doesn't mean it's inherently worse for all riders. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 11:52 | comment | added | Argenti Apparatus | @leftaroundabout I did explain the reason - longer forks than the frame is designed for messes up the steering geometry. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 11:51 | history | edited | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 11:09 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | -1 for dogmatism. “You absolutely do not want to try to raise the handlebars by installing a longer fork” – there may well be good reasons not to do that, but if so you should list them. Of course this will raise the BB height and laxen the steerer tube angle as a side-effect, but none of that is per se a bad thing. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 9:56 | comment | added | Neil Barnwell | The one's I have don't do anything to relieve the pressure of my bodyweight on my wrists. I might try raising the bars with a new stem and see if that helps. That was going to be my first attempt, anyway, and @Argenti Apparatus confirmed it for me. The suspension thing was just to take the vibrations away; I'm not planning on going downhill racing or anything. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 9:38 | comment | added | Andrew Morton | @NeilBarnwell Have you considered padded cycling gloves? | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 9:27 | comment | added | cbeleites | Depending on how stiff the Saracen frame + fork are, even for a suspension corrected frame it may not be worth while to fit a suspension fork. I'm riding a suspension corrected steel frame from mid of the 2000s (not sure when it was introduced, the same model is still in production, and it was not sold as a novelty) which takes supension forks with 100 mm travel. When I was thinking about upgrading to a suspension fork, the bike mechanic at the store told me that I'd probably need the >750 € (nowadays maybe >1000 €) class of suspension fork to make a noticeable difference to my steel fork. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 9:27 | comment | added | Neil Barnwell | I was afraid this would be the case. I'm not a mountain biker, I just still have my perfectly good old bike from when I was in my late teens, that I looked after very well and was for the time quite a nice one. I was hoping that now I'm cough carrying a bit more weight, and obviously quite a bit older, that I might be able to make it more comfortable (on my wrists, mostly). If buying another bike, it'll be some sort of folding e-bike thing I imagine. Though I'll have to save up for that. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 20:21 | history | answered | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |