Wanted - MTB short travel front fork

oinkely

Hi Folks,

I have a Marzocchi all mountain 3 which i think is about 130mm travel. The bike it is on is being taken over by my daughter for the time being and i would like to drop the front end a bit as its a bit high for her. Was hoping to get hold of a shorter travel fork to see if this would make any difference.

Anyone got anything lying around, doesn't need to be top class, just operational and suitable for a lighter rider.

Cheers

crosswords

Whats your wheel size?

What spacing is the wheel, is it thru axle?

Where are you based?

oinkely

Thanks crosswords, all the questions that weren't relevant last time I built a MTB. There was only 26" and one axle size!

The location one would have been good though.

26" wheel. Standard qr wheel from 10 years ago and live in kilcoole, work in Dun Laoghaire.

Cheers

at1withmyself

It will change the geometry on the bike so be aware of that, if the angles change then it changes how the bike handles etc.. I run a very short carbon rigid fork on a Cube mountain bike and think its fine but some might notice it more.

The Fork came in around 140 Euro but lowered the front end a lot which was my aim, not sure if its any use to you but a rigid fork could drop a few inches off the front end: https://www.carboncycles.cc/index.php?s=0&t=0&type=eXotic%20Shop

Whatwicklow

Can you not just let most of the air out of the fork so there will be loads of sag once its weighted? That will lower the front free gratis.

If your doing this slow the rebound to the maximum too

Gerry

As above just bear in mind this will alter the geometry, steepening the head angle, which will make the handling less stable and put the riders weight further forward if being being used for off road use, not great. Theres definitely no spacers under the stem which could be removed? Change angle of bars.. flip stem upside down if it's a riser stem.

oinkely

Thanks for all the replies.

As it happens I think I'll stick with the fork that's on there for her. Changed the stem to a really short one and dropped it down by removing all the spacers as suggested above and she is actually really comfy on it.

Now just have to sort out a new bike for me ��

boomdocker

You'd also need to check the length of the steerer tube as well as whether it's straight or tapered....

oinkely

boomdocker wrote: »

You'd also need to check the length of the steerer tube as well as whether it's straight or tapered....

all info that is going in the bank for future reference. Cheers