Do you think that running an 80mm fork on a Kula Deluxe would make the steering too twitchy? I'm thinking about buying a frame and swapping my current parts over, but I'm questionning whether my 80mm skarab would do the trick or not. Thanks!
The Kona brochure states the Kula head angle as 69 degrees with 100mm Fox forks so putting a pair of 80mm forks should only steepen the angles by about a degree to give a 70 degree head angle which is about the norm for XC hardtails.
I ditto what Fluff says. Konas have slack head tubes, so it wont hurt at all. My Fire Mountain came with an 85mm fork and I kept the same travel when I bought a new fork because there was no way in hell a 100mm fork would allow me to still go around corner. Personally, I would spring for something like a Marzocchi MX-Pro ETA so you can run full travel downhill and in the rough and lock it down to 30mm travel on the climbs.
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