I have a long rigid Kona fork on my Bontrager <https://www.instagram.com/p/Bghtx09hWyA/?taken-by=biketinker>, replacing a suspension fork. I had the same setup with a Gary Fisher Utopia hybrid <https://www.instagram.com/p/7WbBjIA5nN/?taken-by=biketinker>. I see them as misproportioned, and I don't like that it's an obvious hack. The Fisher had a bad SR fork when I got it, and the Bontrager's SID Air was just older and flexier than I wanted to deal with. One of the things I really liked about my Gryphon mountain bik <https://www.instagram.com/p/BDJ7F3bA5nV/?taken-by=biketinker>e was that it was designed as a rigid bike. It looked good.
Of these two bikes, the dedicated rigid version is more attractive to me, and presented as an improvement on the suspension-able design by the builder: (non-Riv trigger warning) Suspension-corrected <http://www.peterverdone.com/hybrids-are-back/> hybrid vs Rigid <http://www.peterverdone.com/2018-pvd-bird-of-prey/> hybrid. Philip Santa Rosa, CA On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 7:56:05 AM UTC-7, tc wrote: > > With the exciting news about a new Riv MTB in the works, I wonder what > would be given up by offering it with a suspension-corrected rigid fork to > allow those of us who prefer some squish in front to have that option? I > realize it's too late for that, but I can always hope for a "2.0" model :) > > And I'd like to stay away from justifying the need for me or anyone else > needing a suspension fork, and instead stick to the design principles > involved, and mostly the experience of those who've had bikes that were > offered with suspension corrected forks/frames and rode them with both > setups. For the type of riding you do/did, did the offset/trail/whatever > bug you to the point that you didn't like one version or the other? Did > you really appreciate the flexibility it gave you? Did you enjoy it both > ways, for different purposes? > > Tom > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
