carbon rigid forks for a 26er

[Mike Muz]

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I just managed to pick il some bontrager switchblades in 26" alloy flavour definatley worth a look

I didn't know they were alloy. Thought they was made of them proper metals! :?

Had Pace RC-31's and they were fine.
A little scary at first from listening to all the horror stories from people who had never ridden them but because youre concentrating on picking youre way through the rocks you soon forget theyre there. At that point you realize theyre fine.

They are designed to be strong and absorb the knocks and bumps. Im sure there were many horror stories when Alloy forks first made an appearance on the MTB scene :?

And yes they are considerable stiffer than the equivalent in metal

The would look great on the build that I'm doing, viewtopic.php?f=21&t=309354 , however, I've just seen a pair on eBay go for £170odd quid, so maybe I'll stick with the Manitou bouncy forks I already have.

Yup, carbon is terrible at resisting impacts, I mean if you tried this with alloy or steel, it would leave barely a scratch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsDXEEUlRE

Granted, however I did see a clip of the Roc d'Azur race on Eurosport the other night, where a rider was walking down a hill carrying his bike. He had snapped his headtube clean off it :shock: Wish I could get the clip to do a link. The frame was either alloy or Ti as it was bare metal. My point is, each material has it's good and bad characteristics.

Mike

 

[monty dog]

If you want to see flexy forks, try titanium. RC31 is a good, strong fork - healthy market is driving the prices up and I'm keeping mine.

 

[dbmtb]

Keeping mine too.... Considered putting them on a Ritchey P27 but they were a bit too short unfortunately.

 

[Mike Muz]

Keeping mine too.... Considered putting them on a Ritchey P27 but they were a bit too short unfortunately.

Ti ones? Didn't know they came in that flavour.
I guess you won't be needing them then. Would be a shame to send them to landfill
Got any pics of the Ritchey btw ?

Mike

 

[monty dog]

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Ha! My RC31s were fitted to a Ritchey P29er - kept the front end nice and low and no problems with the steepening of the front end. Swapped them to my rigid 29er plus which was designed for the 445mm fork length and offset.