What rigid fork for 29+ clearance?

gravitysucks · Post by **gravitysucks** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:58 am

What forks are you guys running with your 29+ set ups?

I'm looking at tapered and 15mm axle, pref in a carbon variety.

Need to be 100mm and give sufficient clearance for a 3" tyre on a 50mm rim

mountainbaker · Post by **mountainbaker** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:02 pm

I'm running a Whiskey No9 with 15mm thru axle, has loads of clearance for a 3" tyre.

atk · Post by **atk** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:04 pm

Whisky No 9 ticks all the boxes, don't own them but seen on a couple of Krampus and KM Ops plus-front builds...

Edit: ^^ beaten to it!

FLV · Post by **FLV** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:21 pm

I have whiskey 9 too on my krampus. Quite good. Stiffer than the standard krampus fork though.

Obviously the krampus fork fits

Also Salsa enabler fits.

AlasdairMc · Post by **AlasdairMc** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:46 pm

Enve MTN for me.

Loads of clearance, very stiff and direct, yet still compliant, 15mm axle, nice mudguard (which can be removed). It also has the ability to switch the offset from 44mm to 52mm which makes quite a difference to handling.

Bearbonesnorm · Post by **Bearbonesnorm** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:15 pm

Need to be 100mm

I assume you're wanting suspension forks then?

FLV · Post by **FLV** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:48 pm

s8tannorm wrote:
Need to be 100mm
I assume you're wanting suspension forks then?

I assumed hub width as title was rigid, but you could be right.

gravitysucks · Post by **gravitysucks** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:57 pm

The Whisky's look very nice, guess they should at that price!

I assumed hub width as title was rigid

Bingo! 100mm hub width to work with a dynamo hub. No suspension needed here thanks!!

FLV · Post by **FLV** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:06 pm

I like the idea of the enve one with adjustable rake.

fatbikephil · Post by **fatbikephil** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:08 pm

FLV wrote:I like the idea of the enve one with adjustable rake.

How does that work then?

atk · Post by **atk** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:12 pm

Big image so just linking...

http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdna-c ... 2-7509.jpg

You just flip the "chip" spacer thing and have the axle at front or rear position...

Bearbonesnorm · Post by **Bearbonesnorm** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:46 pm

Sorry ... that'll teach me to actually read things properly.

AlasdairMc · Post by **AlasdairMc** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 12:30 am

atk wrote: You just flip the "chip" spacer thing and have the axle at front or rear position...

It also needs the brake mount to be changed to make up for the axle being fore or aft of where it was previously. Not too difficult to do, and all bolts included for it.

It is a lovely piece of kit

FLV · Post by **FLV** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:06 am

AlasdairMc wrote:
It also needs the brake mount to be changed to make up for the axle being fore or aft of where it was previously. Not too difficult to do, and all bolts included for it.

It is a lovely piece of kit

Alasdair,
Do the little spacers dropout if you take your front wheel out, for instance to use with a tarp?

AlasdairMc · Post by **AlasdairMc** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:58 pm

No they're pretty captive within the dropout assembly. I wouldn't want to rest the fork and bike on the ground by the dropout tbh - on a QR fork it's easier as the dropout is open so you can press it into the ground whereas the Enve is closed so I could see it slipping a bit.

johnnystorm · Post by **johnnystorm** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:44 am

These look alright:

http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/rado ... Aj5p8P8HAQ

DrMekon · Post by **DrMekon** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:40 am

Does anyone make a boost110 carbon 29+ fork yet? Much as I love my Manitous on my Stache, I'm not sure I need them for bikepacking stuff.

I could just use a Whiskey no9, and then I could use a dynohub again... but maybe someone will make a boost110 dynohub eventually.

AlasdairMc · Post by **AlasdairMc** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:44 am

johnnystorm wrote:These look alright:

http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/rado ... Aj5p8P8HAQ

They do indeed. I'd be interested to know the offset. They're pretty long too, 495mm versus 470mm on the Enve

gravitysucks · Post by **gravitysucks** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 2:46 pm

Managed to pick up a pair of Salsa Caron Firestarter's
Slam69 had a pair of blue ones up for £200, decided to grab them and get my frame sprayed whilst I'm laid up for two months. Slam emails me the day I order them to say there sold out but would do the Matt black ones I originally wanted for the same price! Bonus.

My Mukluk now has the choice of salsa Makwa's with full fat wheels or Firestarter's with 29+ Dynamo wheels!
One bike to rule them all!

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