longer rear shock on spitfire?

[saruti]

can you put a longer rear shock on the spitfire?
200X57 ?
will it work?

thanks

[builttoride]

Iin a word... no. This will cause a number of frame issues.

[saruti]

but...
the spitfire has 2 holes for making the frame lower/higher.
what if a 200X57 shock be mounted to the hole that makes the bike lower/slacker?
the bike will stay higher/less slack. but will have more travel.
no?

[builttoride]

In theory yes... but unfortunately you will get likely frame collisons plus the linkage kinematics will be skews so that the ride characteristics of the frame will suffer.

[saruti]

ok
thanks

I now ride a MKIII ironhorse and love it (for 6 years now)
I want a new frame. (broke the MKII 2 times...)
I'm going to test the v1 spitfire this weekend
I hope it is good like evryone here say... :-)