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Double crown for 4x
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flag ethanfoster
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 9:51 Quote
I was wondering if anybody had ever taken a double crown fork lowered it to 4" of travel and used it for 4x. If you have please post a picture i won't be doing, I would like see such a beast.
flag brodoyouevenbike
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 9:56 Quote
i'll try finding the pic, but this guy lowered fox 40 to 100mm, not sure if it was 4x or DJ though

kind of a waste though..
flag tom-harrison
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 9:57 Quote
why not just use these?
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flag sendit4
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 10:05 Quote
Not mine. Let the controversy begin.

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Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 10:39 Quote
thats awesome!

it looks super nice
flag webber123
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 10:41 Quote
TyreBurningBiker wrote:
i'll try finding the pic, but this guy lowered fox 40 to 100mm, not sure if it was 4x or DJ though

kind of a waste though..

Not a waste at all. I believe he did it as he broke his other fork. Read the comments on the picture.
flag webber123
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 10:43 Quote
bigquotesI'll Explain, i had been riding rigid for a bit on my bike but it hurt my wrists to much so i decided to order a nice new Lyric, only problem was that it was back order, so i had 2 months of no fork, my solution was to use my nice little fox 32 until it died miserably, now i was stuck with no fork and a month and a half to ride, so i made some calculations and a fox 40 at 6 inches was only 3 mm taller then a 4 inch dirt jumper (which was what the frame was designed to handle) so i figured might as well ride. in the end it was very interesting to ride as the fork was pure butter but also because when it bottomed out it had a 90 degree head angle. i was only riding park with no large impacts so my frame was not affected.
flag webber123
Posted: Jul 5, 2009 at 12:45 Quote
TyreBurningBiker wrote:
is it undoable?

Sure.
flag ej2fast
Posted: Jul 6, 2009 at 14:15 Quote
yeh you should definatley go for it, i won the british nps 4x series on mine, i lowered my zoom bump preloaders down to 50mm, what a perfect ride
flag Hombre3000
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Posted: Jul 6, 2009 at 14:29 Quote
They're stiff but they're not light and they sure don't make it easier to turn sharply (which may or may not matter, depending on the course).
flag dylangreen91
Posted: Jul 6, 2009 at 19:34 Quote
No you dont use duel crowns for 4x you want the low stnd over height
flag tom-harrison
Posted: Jul 7, 2009 at 3:28 Quote
dyalnger9 wrote:
No you dont use duel crowns for 4x you want the low stnd over height

you straddle your forks? i straddle my frame.
flag sie7e
Posted: Jul 20, 2009 at 18:26 Quote
they guy who lowered the 40 broke his frame.

dual crowns, lowered = stupid
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