I can't for the life of me seem to find a decent priced front axle for my Sherman (cheapest axle I found was $80 shipped from New Zealand), and Manitou is not responding to my e-mails, so I am considering a new fork entirely
Would something like this Circus be a good fork? Honestly just want it to be rideable for a season or two until I decide if I'm willing to invest in a true dirt jumper like a Chromag Monk or similar
I can't for the life of me seem to find a decent priced front axle for my Sherman (cheapest axle I found was $80 shipped from New Zealand), and Manitou is not responding to my e-mails, so I am considering a new fork entirely
Would something like this Circus be a good fork? Honestly just want it to be rideable for a season or two until I decide if I'm willing to invest in a true dirt jumper like a Chromag Monk or similar
Haven't used the coil version but the air version is very good. But annoying to live with, with the axle system. But as long as you never take your wheel off you'll be fine.
My advice would be look around for the expert model so you have the adjustability of the air spring and they're dirt cheap used. You won't have to buy another one for a good few years if you get one and will be so much better than your Sherman.
I have the same frame and a trixer (although I haven't installed it yet)! It looks like you used two gyro tab screws to hold the trixer in place, but the up most hole on the Absolute frame is not threaded. Did you just twist it in?
SO THATS WHY THE TOP BOLT WAS SO HARD!!! Thankyou so much for veryfying that, I thought they had sent me two different bolts hahaha! That holder was the last thing to put on as well I thought I'd have to take it all off cause I couldn't get that bolt in. Ended up getting my impact gun, laying the bike on the floor and making my own thread with some body weight added. Did up to torque with no problems at all.
HAHA! Okay yea, that does clarify it. Well, at least you know it's solid in there. I might end up using the headset lock but I really want to keep stack height as low as possible. I might get creative with it..
If I were you, I'd use the mount that goes under your headset cup if you can. It looks a lot cleaner I just don't have a press to out it back together.
I recently built up a bike for my girlfriend and have a QR on there for the moment. I have to use chain tugs with it though. She's not an aggressive rider and uses the bike for pumptracks so it's fine, but if you are more aggressive and riding dirt/street I would avoid it.
SO THATS WHY THE TOP BOLT WAS SO HARD!!! Thankyou so much for veryfying that, I thought they had sent me two different bolts hahaha! That holder was the last thing to put on as well I thought I'd have to take it all off cause I couldn't get that bolt in. Ended up getting my impact gun, laying the bike on the floor and making my own thread with some body weight added. Did up to torque with no problems at all.
HAHA! Okay yea, that does clarify it. Well, at least you know it's solid in there. I might end up using the headset lock but I really want to keep stack height as low as possible. I might get creative with it..
If I were you, I'd use the mount that goes under your headset cup if you can. It looks a lot cleaner I just don't have a press to out it back together.
Headset stack did change a lot tbh, but I'm over 6ft tall and it really helped with manuals cause my Absolut is a size L! Hunting for a shallower bearing cap for the top to bring it down ATM but for some reason none seem to run smooth with the headset that came in the bike. No might have to look for a fresh headset all together