wdfwguy

I picked up this Trek 7100 and would like to beef it up a little for someone my size (6'5" 275)

Fixed forks and possibly beefier wheels. Or any other suggestions?

Sayre Kulp 

Completely unnecessary. I've been riding a stock Trek 7200 since I was around 400 pounds.

jsigone

fork w/ lock out or pure rigid and rigid seat post. Those suspension thingys don't work well and cause allot of pedal bob.

Looks like 32h rims so no need to change those out yet.

wdfwguy

Well, that's good to know

wdfwguy

I really don't like the suspension forks for just riding in the park or on bike trails.

Any suggestions for a good, rigid fork?

jsigone

I've used Soul Cycle (straight blade), voodoo (Curved) & Carbon niner (straight)

in order I like from my riding on single tracks and offroad MTB stuff
Niner (love this thing, light weight, dampens everything, no chatter, all vibrations are muted up front)
Soul Cycle (pretty light weight, some dampening but more consistent feed back, chattered pretty hard though through the rocks)
Voodoo (heavier then the Soul, curved fork made it deflect allot on the rocks, dampening was pretty good aka flexy and did chatter allot as well, can feel it through the frame down to the pedals unlike the Soul fork.)

Myosmith

Dimension makes some decent chrome-moly forks that are suspension corrected. +1 on getting rid of the suspension seatpost. Keep the wheels trued and tensioned and only worry about them if you start having problems.

Erwin8r

Agree on the new, non-suspension seatpost and the rigid forks mentioned above. Then have your wheels checked-out/re-tensioned by a reputable cycle smith, and you're good to go.

DX-MAN

Thanks, dude, I just scared the dog HOWLING WITH LAUGHTER.

You don't know what pedal bob IS until you ride a Walmart Mongoose full-suss BSO.

wdfwguy

Thanks!

Is there a site where I can find the right type and size that would swap out on my particular bike?

jsigone

All of those are suspension corrected length to replace forks with 80-100mm of travel so it doesn't screw up the frame geometry. Most likely you have a 80mm fork already.

donalson

from a quick glance and then a look on bikepedia it looks like the fork is a 50mm fork

the easiest way to deal with the suspension bits would be take it to the LBS and have them measure it and then order a steel fork that meets the length needs... it should be measured at ideal sag height which would be about 25% of the travel so axle to crown length minus 12-15mm should be about ideal length.