... good idea? bad idea? really dangerous? nothing to worry about? I don't know.
I have a couple of frames salvaged from the recycling bin, one steel and unmarked, one alloy (a DiamondBack MT20). Both of them had cheap sus' forks that were rusted solid and so got binned.
I just want to put a bike together so I can go places with my kids that my ex-racer singlespeed won't take me, but because these frames were presumably designed with different geometry for suspension forks I don't know whether fitting a regular and inexpensive set of rigid forks is safe to do so. I don't have the cash to buy and try, in case it goes horribly wrong, so I just wondered if anyone had any words of wisdom on the subject...
I have a couple of frames salvaged from the recycling bin, one steel and unmarked, one alloy (a DiamondBack MT20). Both of them had cheap sus' forks that were rusted solid and so got binned.
I just want to put a bike together so I can go places with my kids that my ex-racer singlespeed won't take me, but because these frames were presumably designed with different geometry for suspension forks I don't know whether fitting a regular and inexpensive set of rigid forks is safe to do so. I don't have the cash to buy and try, in case it goes horribly wrong, so I just wondered if anyone had any words of wisdom on the subject...