Super Monster... 300mm travel !

jonowee said:

When I say steepen the headtube angle, I mean as the fork compresses through its travel. If you manage to bottom out the fork, imagine the change in the angle and the handling of the bike... scary (to me anyway).

I guess no one on the MTBR forum owns one of these. (or are yet to post a reply.)

Slightly OT, how big is too big for stanchions? What will the future big hit fork be like?

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i doubt we'll see any forks ever really surpass 40mm. The problem is lubrication, without adaquate lubrication stanchions that big just create a huge amount of stiction (like with hanebrink forks). So as long as we can have proper lubrication to eliminate stiction, there's no set limit, ,but I doubt we'll ever see anything greater than 40mm on a mainstream fork. The fox fork has 40mm stanchions, and it can be stronger and stiffer with these bigger stanchions, and the weight can be actually lower because you'll still retain better strenght and stiffness due to the diameter, but what you sacrifice is resistance to denting and imacts. This is how the new fox DH fork can be sub7lbs, and the old 7" marzocchi Monster T was 9.5lbs. Both would probably fair about the same in a stiffness test, but the 9.5lb monster has way thicker stanchions, lowers, and crown, creating a much more durable fork. The fox DH fork may be good and plenty durable, so we will just have to wait and see. I have my eye on the fox 36.