Originally Posted by
fabian.milea
Hi, I took my Thoughroad to a XC race last weekend and I had a lot of fun. The course was mostly on fireroads and not to technical. Also, this summer I went on some more serious mountain rocky track and I'm thinking of transforming my hybrid into an MTB, has some one mounted a suspension fork on the Thoughroad?
You 'could', but to do so would be ill-advised. The Toughroad's geometry is not suspension-corrected. It is designed around the rigid fork with which it comes stock. That has two consequences.
First, putting on a suspension fork will change the geometry and the bike's handling -- for the worse. The front end will be 'jacked up', affecting everything else.
Second, putting on a suspension fork will almost certainly void any frame warranty.
You'd do much better to use the bike the way it is, perhaps with the widest/best tires you can find that fit, or replace it with or add a mountainbike with suspension, if that is what you want.