2011
11.21

New forks on the Giant

Category: bike repair, giant / Add Comment

Ready for new parts...

Ready for new parts...

Ever since I bought the Giant last year I’ve been slightly disappointed with the forks on it – because I bought the cheapest model of the Trance to stay within the Cycle To Work Scheme budget (and my own budget!) it came with Rockshox Tora coil sprung forks as standard, which are pretty heavy and have always been slightly too stiff for my liking even with the preload backed all the way off.

A couple of days ago the usual Friday offers email arrived in my inbox from Merlin Cycles and one of the highlighted items was some nice shiny Rockshox Reba RL air sprung forks for a pretty decent price… so I ordered them :)

Not only should they be lighter and give me a lot more control over their response and stiffness, they also come with the PopLoc remote lockout system which should hopefully make climbing a bit easier as the Toras didn’t have any lockout on them at all!

The old coil sprung Tora forks are now off the bike and I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of their Reba replacements in the post. Hopefully they arrive and I can get them fitted before the weekend as I’m off down to Wales for a few days next week and Afan would be an ideal testing location :)

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