Forgive me if this has already been addressed

I am just curious at this stage, but has anyone done a 96er conversion on a hardtail or full suspension. I've been looking at numbers (axle to crown) on standard forks and 29er forks and it seems like there are some possibilities.

Lets take a 2007 Jamis Dragon Comp for example.

It comes with a Manitou Relic Super 100mm travel fork that has an axle to crown height of 470mm. If you went with a Rock Shox Reba 29er 80mm fork, it would have a axle to crown height of 472mm...2mm will not alter the headtube angle (71.5 in a 19" frame) significantly.

Of course, there would be questions of frame clearance fork the fork crown and adjustment knobs, but otherwise in theory it seems like it would work.

Anyone ever tried something like this?
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Did you take into account that a larger wheel will be in there? A Reba is closer to 485mm, BTW.

A quick google should bring up a couple dozen similar threads to this one, right here :-)

strait from SRAM

http://www.sram.com/_media/techdocs/Reba%2029er%20US4-309182-010_C.pdf

An 80mm Reba is 472mm...

But no, I didn't take into account the extra ~1.5" of height from the larger wheel...good point

I find the 472mm to be a little short...I assume that number is with some sag included, whereas the Manitou is not including sag.

This has been covered before many times over. Do a search for 96er or 69er...