Mountain Bike Frame Hardtail
Mountain bike front fork swap.?
I just bought a kona stinky 2001 frame. i am planning on taking all the parts i need off another hardtail bike. I am pretty confident that everything will fit, im just not sure about the front fork. ive seen alot of postings of front forks that dont fit their bikes, so i just want to be sure that the fork will fit.
So is the diameter of most front forks (not including downhill or nonsuspension) the same/ interchangeable?
The problem is not the fork steerer (mostly, all are 1 1/8″ size), but the axle to crown distance (a2c), and that distance is affected mostly by fork travel. Different forks might have different a2c length even if they provide the same travel, but mostly go around a similar range. Anyway, mostly all manufacturers just publish fork travel, not a2c length.
I don’t know which fork you have, but most probably, if you have a hardtail, the fork would be around 60 to 100mm travel, which would be too short for a Stinky. You would lower the front a lot more than what it was designed for (well, I don’t know the specks on the 2001 Stinky, but I think it is and was a freeride bike), which probably was around 150 or so.
So, you would have a bike that has the headtube angle too steep, which would mean it would be too twitchy, and lower the bottom bracket height.
Besides considering a new fork, you need to consider the seatpost size, front deraileur size and type.
2011 Opus Fhast 29er Mountain BIke
