waylow
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Everyone, it is official, you may now all love and worship me!
after what felt like forever, reading and searching every forum I could find, I finally came up with the perfect solution to our suspension woes!!!!
like many of you, my new bike has a 1" neck tube / steer tube / head tube / steerer (trying to make this search friendly) and our only solutions seem to be cheap and very flimsy looking reproduction schwinn style and monarch style springers. and these dont have steer tubes long enough for my frame. So I looked into the Pantourhub, and eh, I'm still not sure about it. if there was no other way, I would get the 1/2 Inch Pantour hub. But there is another way!!!
An Italian company called Marzocchi made a series of awesome mountain bike suspension forks with 1" steer tubes! and they are easily removed with 2 allen bolts, to put a longer one in, which I will need to do. These things were like 650 bux new in 2007. but you can get them used and in perfect working order for 150-400 dollars on ebay. for v-brakes, or disc. they look like great products, and they just went on my list.
happy, and smooth riding to everyone!
-waylow
after what felt like forever, reading and searching every forum I could find, I finally came up with the perfect solution to our suspension woes!!!!
like many of you, my new bike has a 1" neck tube / steer tube / head tube / steerer (trying to make this search friendly) and our only solutions seem to be cheap and very flimsy looking reproduction schwinn style and monarch style springers. and these dont have steer tubes long enough for my frame. So I looked into the Pantourhub, and eh, I'm still not sure about it. if there was no other way, I would get the 1/2 Inch Pantour hub. But there is another way!!!
An Italian company called Marzocchi made a series of awesome mountain bike suspension forks with 1" steer tubes! and they are easily removed with 2 allen bolts, to put a longer one in, which I will need to do. These things were like 650 bux new in 2007. but you can get them used and in perfect working order for 150-400 dollars on ebay. for v-brakes, or disc. they look like great products, and they just went on my list.
happy, and smooth riding to everyone!
-waylow
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