MTB Rockshox Question

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Ok I have a Giant XTC4.5 a few years old and currently doing good service as my fitness bike up in Erskine. Its fitted with a Dart 2 suspension fork which is a Rockshox XC28 equivalent new.
Basically its a bit knackered, the lockout is broken and its lost all its oil so its a bit of a spongy thing.

Now thing is the bike is not doing any real MTB action its being used as a cycle track fitness ride type machine so its killing my ride with to much bouncing.

Thoughts are to convert it to a fixed fork and then look at getting the suspension fork serviced/replaced for future times.
Anyone any experience with this? Looking at the google web looks quite easy, the fork has to have enough correction to have the right hub-crown height, I need a disk mount and I think a straight 1/18th steerer?

thinking something like this

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/m-part/rigid-26-mountain-bike-fork-ec028168
 
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the only thing you might find is that a rigid fork has a different axle to crown height and will drop the front end down and steepen the head angle.

I've got good things to say about TFTuned for suspension servicing, however they do not list the Dart/XC28. Might be worth a call (they prefer calls to emails as they wear headsets when working on services).
 
yeah I know about the corrected height crown bit and I will be measuring mine tonight to get the exact number.
I quite fancy it being a rigid for what I am using it for which is just hard core cycle track fitness rides.
With the spongy fork and knobllys on currently doing 26 miles in about 1 hour 40 mins.

picking some slick 26x1.9s up from evans tomorrow.
 
well with the lockout bust and the oil gone its problably sagging by 20-30mm
 
I swapped out the cheap suspension forks on a Carrera kraken for a kona project2 rigid fork(no longer available new) to use on the road before I got a drop-bar road bike. Suspension isn't really needed for road use and it's plenty comfortable for light trail use just not as quick in proper rough stuff as you have to pick a line instead of just crashing through.
These should suit as they're designed to replace a 100mm travel fork like the dart2 and kinesis do really decent kit (may be a slight bias as I bought Kinesis forks for my road bike that I'm building up)
and i've had only good dealings with chain reaction.The V-brake mounts will just unscrew as you're using a disk brake.
Plus you'll lose a kilo and a half of weight off the bike!
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/kinesis-maxlight-xlt-forks/rp-prod49590

or they do the 2016 xc28 for £80......
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/rockshox-xc-28-tk-coil-forks-9mmqr-2016/rp-prod136320
 
@Yelkrub do the V mounts screw out of the XC28 do you know?
 
Looking on the rockshox website I found the spare parts catalogue for their forks and it gives a part list number for the posts so I'm assuming they do.

https://www.sram.com/rockshox/products/xc-28-tk-0#service

click link for 2016 spare parts and go to pages 12&13 for diagrams and parts list.

check your brake caliper mount is compatible as there's a couple of different types( the only image i can find of the brake mount on a dart 2 looks the same as the xc28) and you'll also need a star nut to go in the steerer tube after you cut it to length to tighten everything up.
 
cheers for that, I had forgot about the star nut.
I am really tempted to go for the rigids, it specifies an IS disc mount.
Looks all Rockshox are IS mounts as well :-)
 
Well here she is with the slix now fitted, still thinking about fitting that fixed fork...
huuuummmmmm

 
Brill. Just to add to the confusion;);

http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/FOOOCR26DO/on-one-cromo-26er-mtb-fork-disc-only

A little heavier than the M part fork but a bit cheaper at £49.99 in the on-one sale, last day sunday.

I think rockshox use a post disc mount (caliper mounting thread points back from fork) and this one is I.S.(caliper mount holes point across fork legs) and will need an adaptor like http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BSPTOIS/post-to-is-brake-mount in the correct size for your disc rotor.

I haven't dealt with On -one but they have a good rep.

Of course if you're only riding on the road and serious about training then you'll really be better with something like this:D:D
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/specialized/s-works-roubaix-sl4-disc-di2-2015-road-bike-ec101811 :exit:
 
@Yelkrub ha ha I have seen that crazy specialized in Evans a few months back, weighs as much as a scared hedgehog, no good for my fat carcase :-)

I do have a road bike as well, a scott speedster 10 with some mavic cosmics but that lives in Huddersfield at the family home. At the moment I am working in Erskine near Glasgow so the MTB is doing service up here hence fitting some slix and maybe changing the forks just to bring it closer to my road speeder.

 
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