These mounts work and look entirely different than disc brakes. There is only one type of V-brake mount for mountain bike forks. Or a dictionary-sized book! The topic is seeming to get less complicated as time goes on but is still one of those things where lots of forks used different sizes and styles of mounts over the years. Air VS Coil, the debate that still goes on everyday. When you are looking to upgrade your suspension fork, it's likely you will be looking at an Air fork.
They are more adjustable, feel smoother most of the time, and normally they are the upgrade option. If you currently have a lower end coil fork, an air fork will make a huge improvement. Now, there are a few coil forks coming back to life in the mid-high end range, like MRP Ribbon Coil, CaneCreek Helm Coil, and the new Marzocchi Z1 Coil fork, are new coil options if you want a set it and forget it fork.
If you are also looking to maybe turn your mid-high end fork into a coil fork, you can look at Push Industries ACS-3 coil insert kit. The last thing to consider is how much do you want to spend? This is hard to answer as it depends on your budget, riding amount, style, as well as what bike you are putting it on. If you are upgrading a bike that is more than 10 years old, it's likely that you might want to think about even making those upgrades.
For a little bit more money, you can often get a more modern mountain bike that has newer standards and geometry. If you have a bike that is only a few years old, it's very likely you can make some upgrades that will work for your bike and might be future proof as well if you wanted to upgrade other parts as well. It will also be heavier. Fork stanchions range from 28mm up to 36mm. Fork axle range from 9mm QR through to 20mm bolt-thru.
Leisure riders should always check out the sale sections and try to pick up a slightly older model. Basic models from big brands are a safe bet. Regular riders should go for a fork with a decent amount of damping adjustability.
You should have a high performance fork that can be set-up how you like it. Some sort of compression damping should be on offer. Adjustable travel is nice if your riding involves extended periods of steep climbing. This measurement will be different depending on whether you use an unthreaded steerer tube or a threaded one. An unthreaded steerer tube is used with an unthreaded headset. The length of an unthreaded steerer tube is one factor that will determine the height of your handlebars. You can comfortably adjust the handlebars to the right height with a normal-sized tube.
A threaded steerer tube is used with a threaded headset. These tubes use to be industry-standard, but with the many cost benefits to manufacturing unthreaded tubes, they have fallen out of favor. Threaded steerer tubes allow you to adjust the handlebar height with greater ease. The length of the steerer tube needs to be long enough to accommodate the headset that you are using.
This means that the length of any fork you try to put on your bike will be somewhat dependent on the headset that you are using, but this should not affect performance. Coming off the steerer tube is the crown which connects the blades of the fork.
These blades are what connect the front wheel to the bike. The blades are measured for both length and width. This measurement is commonly known as the spacing. The spacing is measured between the inside edges of the end of the fork blades.
It changed a lot but in each genre minimally. Outcome… fucking incredible. I can do stoppies. Good blog. Cheers for the rad headlight to go with my front end. Hi Tom. I like your works, especially Sportster. I want to keep stock wheel if possible. Forks on Dyna and Sportster are similar except springs and upper tubes. Nice article Tom. By doing so I got a much rigid front legs and much power to do stoppie. Never think to get back to the stock set up.
Thanks Tom, but the one question not answered is how to adapt the old instruments to the modern wheel. Can you help with that? Thanks Doug. Generally we use a Magnetic pick up Speedometer on our conversions. I have never had to use the standard gauges on a USD conversion. Really helpful. As I say in the blog, just check and measure before you pull the trigger.
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