The forks lengths follow the tire size and brake requirements, and there's so much to it, when you do it the way we do it--some 650b forks are 388, some are 370, and there's a 399 looming there. Suspension forks have to be super long to account for suspension, and the extra length means extra leverage against the frame, which means the downtube has to be extra something, too, or it'll cave in. The frame and fork obviously work together, but it's not obvious how unarbitrary the lengths of the forks are. We could design our frames to work well with superlong forks, or make them to work with our forks, but not both, so...
It's still a good question, tho...(and has a good answer, I hope). 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.
