its 5.5 but feels like more because of 29inch wheels...
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Man are you good, and quick too......DeeZee said:
CF. Oh and for the record the WFO has 7in of travel.....What? Opps my bad, I thought the 2ins.of frame flex was just added in... CF.
That was rich..........OldHouseMan said:
Ouch!
I know I've had issues with my WFO but flex definately isn't one of them. I had wicked tire scrub on my EVO's chainstays, the WFO is way stiffer than that.
I would have liked it if they could have kept with the 6"+ travel idea though. But with the tight clearances it currently has, things would have to change somewhere to find that extra travel.
Better fork options would be great before the new season!!!!!:madman:
CF, you sure your not getting paid by Banshee to promote the Claymore?CRAZY FRED said:Man are you good, and quick too......
I know I've had issues with my WFO but flex definately isn't one of them. I had wicked tire scrub on my EVO's chainstays, the WFO is way stiffer than that.
I would have liked it if they could have kept with the 6"+ travel idea though. But with the tight clearances it currently has, things would have to change somewhere to find that extra travel.
Better fork options would be great before the new season!!!!!:madman:
Genesis of the WFO pdf document link in this thread includes the prototype process and the final settlement on the 140mm travel front and rear:Jwiffle said:
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=448616
We started out by designing our suspension for 6" of travel and downsized from there to match up with the current 29er forks on the market. When the appropriate fork comes along, we'll be ready. Claims they have been riding a 6" CVA prototype for 4 years now as part of the development process that lead to the introduction of the WFO.
Then one can always go back to DC's fun fork thread:
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=264544
It's not like the metric system is confusing or anything. Run the numbers for any rear shock or fork to convert the travel in millimeters over to inches to clear up any confusion when it comes to how many inches you are bouncing up and down on....
If they originally said it would be 6" of travel, that would mean they were shooting for a rear shock and a fork with 152-3mm (5.984-6.023 inches) of travel, but in reality was the industry standard measurement of 6 inches which is 150mm. The final production model and they come out with the rear shock at 140mm (5.511 inches) and team up with Zoke for a 140mm tapered steerer fork. Remember what they said: We started out by designing our suspension for 6" of travel and downsized from there to match up with the current 29er forks on the market. When the appropriate fork comes along, we'll be ready.
And the claim in this video is that 5.5" of travel on the WFO 29"er is 'equivalent' or 'feels like' 7 inches of travel on a 26" wheeled bike.
You would have to have a rear shock and a front fork with 152 or 153mm to officially call it '6 inches of travel' in my book when converting metric measurements to inches - although the industry seems to have never had a problem rounding up 150mm (5.905 inches to call it a full six). On the other hand, 120mm is 4.724 inches - yet Niner rounds that down and calls it only 4.5 inches for the RIP 9. And they say the geometry of the RIP is based around using forks with travel between 100mm - 135mm. If you can run a 135mm fork on a RIP, why not bump up to a longer travel fork on the WFO as well?
Ah ha! Wait a minute....
Niner says that the the WFO: Niner geometry designed to work with 120-150mm travel forks
Well there you go. There's your industry 6 inches (150mm), even though it really is only 5.905 inches.
And as they said - they're ready to take a full six inches inserted through that tapered steerer head tube as soon as the industry can produce them.You want 6 inches up front? Throw the White Brothers 150mm fork on the front with the steerer tube crown race adapter for the non-tapered tube forks. Or keep pushing (like DC loves to post about) for longer travel 29"er forks from the manufacturers you prefer (with the tapered steerer tube of course). Or D.I.Y. conversion/mod of a long travel 26" fork to squeeze a 29"er tire in there like in DC's thread above.
Do you have links to those pictures and posts where Niner had longer travel than 6 inches (150mm) during the prototype process of the past 4 years?
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