Piecing Together a Diamondback

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flag Caleb9107
Posted: Apr 24, 2014 at 10:02 Quote
Hi all, I've recently purchased an XL 2012 Diamondback Mission Pro frame off of ebay. I am currently in the process of choosing how to piece it together and am trying to figure out my suspension components for it.

A little info on myself, I'm 6'3" and ~150 pounds so not a massive amount of weight pushing on the frame. I am building this for some All mountain/freeride and the occasional DH sprint when I can travel to some hills. I will also be doing some dirt jumps locally at a built up section in a state park.

I am trying to get feedback if I can put a 7" dual crown on this frame. From Diamondback they had a supposed 6-6.3" SC travel and look like a beefy headtube/top tube/down tube joint. With a HA of 65 degrees, I was thinking of trying to run this as standard to start with and maybe eventually pick up an angleset to sit it down at about 63.5 degrees. Does anyone see a problem with this?

My other question is really only relevant should I be able to put a DC on this frame. If I go 7" travel in the front, is there a problem running the standard 6.3" (160mm) travel rear shock or will this difference cause negative handling effects/damage?

Here is the frame set link: http://www.diamondback.com/all-mountain_2012-mission-pro-frameset
And here is the complete bike spec for reference: http://www.diamondback.com/2012-mission-pro

Thanks for any advice and help,
Caleb.
flag pm148
Posted: Apr 30, 2014 at 18:42 Quote
Travel isn't determined by the shock. That is to say you can't add travel in the back. So your stuck with it. Why do you want dual crowns?
flag Caleb9107
Posted: Apr 30, 2014 at 19:33 Quote
Dual Crowns for added stiffness in the front end, especially when doing larger jumps and drops to flats. I won't be able to afford top of the line new stuff so I am looking at used stuff from last generation if that accounts for anything. Just trying to figure out how much extra stress a dual crown of the same travel would produce over a single crown or if attempting to adapt the DC to SC stock frame is considered ridiculous. I've yet to see a DC mission pro, but I've also yet to see a whole lot of modified mission pro's in general.
flag pm148
Posted: Apr 30, 2014 at 19:38 Quote
Just check axle to crown lengths. I don't think you'll be able to find a DC that has one similar enough. If it were a 180mm fork that you wanted to replace than that would be a different story. You'll need to get a DC lowered. Honesty you'll be fine with a 160-179 single crown for what you want to do.
flag Caleb9107
Posted: Apr 30, 2014 at 20:16 Quote
Hmm, if I found a fork with a similar crown length, say the Boxxer U-Turn or some of the older 160-170mm DC, theoretically it should work?
And I will take a look into some of the 160mm SC forks. Thanks for your input by the way!
flag pm148
Posted: Apr 30, 2014 at 20:26 Quote
Yep no problem! As long as the axle to crown is similar then the geo won't be f*cked to bad haha.
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