Powered by Outside

Advantages Of Rigids

PB Forum :: Dirt Jumping & Street
Advantages Of Rigids
Author Message
flag spongebomb
Posted: Apr 23, 2009 at 13:23 Quote
the biggest advantage of rigid is that it always handles the same, my argyle was good most time, but sometimes it sucked for a day (too slow rebound, and didn't do anything with the settings. next day it was fine again :S)
and my goldlabel was really fine, but that one also had problems with not being 100% reliable

that's the main reason i ride rigid now
flag cadge
Posted: Apr 23, 2009 at 15:20 Quote
They pretty much beat sus hands down for dj/street/park.

They always feel the same riding up a transition, like spongebomb said, you dont want to hit something, or pull up to hop and have your preload or rebound play about and send you funny.

On the note of being smooth, im a hack, and get away fine with rigid forks, just like riding a bmx, just more comfy.

And try to use steel bars, alu bars are too stiff and generally dont feel nearly as nice with rigids.
flag ddujnitsud
Posted: Apr 23, 2009 at 19:36 Quote
Has anyone tried the Bear forks offered in the classifieds? They look good, but not sure about the quality.
flag
Posted: Apr 24, 2009 at 4:57 Quote
i might try some rigids soon,
good thread Smile
flag spongebomb
Posted: Apr 24, 2009 at 8:05 Quote
cadge wrote:
They pretty much beat sus hands down for dj/street/park.

They always feel the same riding up a transition, like spongebomb said, you dont want to hit something, or pull up to hop and have your preload or rebound play about and send you funny.

On the note of being smooth, im a hack, and get away fine with rigid forks, just like riding a bmx, just more comfy.

And try to use steel bars, alu bars are too stiff and generally dont feel nearly as nice with rigids.

that's also the reason i don't ride freecoaster btw Razz

i don't agree on the alu/steel bars, i rode rigid + alu bar for over a year without any problems. there was a thread on ride-steeze.com about this and nobody who've ridden that setup had any problems with it Wink
flag hung-l
Posted: Apr 24, 2009 at 17:24 Quote
I'm riding rigid with alu bars right now. I even used to ride with lock-ons. It's actually not too bad.
flag TheSpook
Posted: May 17, 2009 at 12:47 Quote
any one tried the rebate xl ? are they weaker than the normal ones cos there longer ? and rns or fundimentan ? wich is stronger ?
flag gutkrencher
Posted: May 17, 2009 at 12:57 Quote
TheSpook wrote:
any one tried the rebate xl ? are they weaker than the normal ones cos there longer ? and rns or fundimentan ? wich is stronger ?

the longer the fork the weaker it will be as theres more leverage on it to bend. The xl will bend easier, theres no point in long forks though anyway.
flag
Posted: May 17, 2009 at 18:54 Quote
gutkrencher wrote:
TheSpook wrote:
any one tried the rebate xl ? are they weaker than the normal ones cos there longer ? and rns or fundimentan ? wich is stronger ?

the longer the fork the weaker it will be as theres more leverage on it to bend. The xl will bend easier, theres no point in long forks though anyway.

The XL is fine. Works well. I grabbed the XL to give the front end a bit more height. I wanted the extra 35mm more A2C and to help negate the head angle a bit.

Unsecure image, only https images allowed: http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4116/cimg0741edited.jpg
flag boolmv
Posted: May 17, 2009 at 19:05 Quote
after reading all this stuff i really think i'm going to switch to rigid after i get enough money to get one. lol
flag pete-roles-a-revell
Posted: May 18, 2009 at 16:22 Quote
haha sell your suspension, thats what i did Razz

The guy commenting on how rigids are weaker than sus, im sorry but thats not true because people who ride rigids learn to bend their arms and ride smoothly, they have to if they like there wrists haha
flag boolmv
Posted: May 18, 2009 at 19:21 Quote
but i wanna keep it.. incase i don't like rigid... cough. i love my bmx ahhaha =P
flag spongebomb
Posted: May 18, 2009 at 23:24 Quote
gutkrencher wrote:
TheSpook wrote:
any one tried the rebate xl ? are they weaker than the normal ones cos there longer ? and rns or fundimentan ? wich is stronger ?

the longer the fork the weaker it will be as theres more leverage on it to bend. The xl will bend easier, theres no point in long forks though anyway.


it will bend easier than the regular rebate, but i still think it's stronger than 99% of all the rigid forks, cuase it's a rebate Razz so a longer version of the strongest rigid fork ever made


the point of longer forks is that short rigid forks f*cks up the geometrie of a lot of frames Wink
flag gutkrencher
Posted: May 19, 2009 at 3:06 Quote
spongebomb wrote:
gutkrencher wrote:
TheSpook wrote:
any one tried the rebate xl ? are they weaker than the normal ones cos there longer ? and rns or fundimentan ? wich is stronger ?

the longer the fork the weaker it will be as theres more leverage on it to bend. The xl will bend easier, theres no point in long forks though anyway.


it will bend easier than the regular rebate, but i still think it's stronger than 99% of all the rigid forks, cuase it's a rebate Razz so a longer version of the strongest rigid fork ever made


the point of longer forks is that short rigid forks f*cks up the geometrie of a lot of frames Wink

yeah tru. it will definately be strong for its length. I think ideally the issue is that its best to have a frame suited to a shorter fork aswell rather than a frame designed for suspenshion.

 


Copyright © 2000 - 2024. Pinkbike.com. All rights reserved.
dv65 1.389170
Mobile Version of Website