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Fox 34 FIT (2014 version), originally at 140 then upped to 150. I found that
after dropping my bar height by a spacer following the travel increase, there
is no trade-off for climbing. The headtube is pretty tall on this bike, so if
your bars are already slammed at 140, you're going to need lower bars/lower-
stack headset at 150 to keep things feeling how you want them.
In the low-speed steep techy stuff, I actually didn't feel much of a limit
with the fork at 140, and I can't say I notice the extra cm of suspension. The
slight increase in stability in high-speed corners is really the only place I
notice it (in a good way). Because of the steeper HA, the bike likes a
slightly more neutral balance in corners, vs something slacker where the bars
need to be driven. With the 150 fork, I can push on the front wheel just a
little bit more.
Nov. 9, 2015, 11:29 a.m. - DMVancouver
#!markdown Fox 34 FIT (2014 version), originally at 140 then upped to 150. I found that after dropping my bar height by a spacer following the travel increase, there is no trade-off for climbing. The headtube is pretty tall on this bike, so if your bars are already slammed at 140, you're going to need lower bars/lower- stack headset at 150 to keep things feeling how you want them. In the low-speed steep techy stuff, I actually didn't feel much of a limit with the fork at 140, and I can't say I notice the extra cm of suspension. The slight increase in stability in high-speed corners is really the only place I notice it (in a good way). Because of the steeper HA, the bike likes a slightly more neutral balance in corners, vs something slacker where the bars need to be driven. With the 150 fork, I can push on the front wheel just a little bit more.