1998 Santa Cruz Heckler

[RobMac]

I've got a '98' Heckler and I fitted modern Fox RL32's and the lock-out knob is fowling on the down tube. Anybody else had this issue?

 

[02gf74]

but surely that happens when you turn the bars, and it is unlikely you need to turn the bars that far when riding?

which makes the "problem" no worse to a lefty fork or dual crown forks?

 

[firedfromthecircus]

What headset Rob? Maybe just need one with a higher stack height. Depends how much foul you've got.

 

[RobMac]

Re:

I understand what your saying about turning the bars but I'm worried if I fall off (sorry that should read 'when' I fall off) it'll whack the down tube.
And I'll look into the stack hight of the H/Set (its a Ritchey WCS headset BTW).

 

[IbocProSX]

I have a 97 Heckler and have used it with 4-5 different forks, including Fox, RockShox, Pace and Marzocchi.
Also using a Ritchey external cup headset, but all of them cleared the downtube.

If you have a Chris King headset to swap in, they do a 3?mm extra high crown race in 1.1/8" which could do the trick.

Enjoy!!