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Old 06-21-22, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by t2p
sweet looking KHS ! and with 160 / 150 mm susp travel !

I can recall installing a 'long travel' kit on a Judy XC fork - to increase the travel to 80mm lol ... in the rear had 60-80 mm travel (?)

and this was living large - after forks with 60 mm of travel - and before this it was often just a rigid fork and a 2.2 Ritchey Z Max lol
I had one of those Rock Shox forks with the little hole like a basketball where you put air into it. Later got a Manitou elastomer fork and I put a spring and damper kit in it.
I think it was 80mm and the Rock Shox fork was 63mm.

My first rear suspension bike was a 1998 K2 with a Girvin fork and Noleen shocks front and rear. Yes, the fork had a little shock and linkage on it. I put the older Manitou fork on it after the Noleen blew up. When the rear Noleen went bad I bought a custom air shock from Risse Racing. I had a lot of fun on that bike. The frame broke after 10 years.
Then I got my first KHS and rode it for 10 more years. It was 100mm on both ends but my LBS gave me a 130mm fork for it.
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