I understand climbing you want little travel or you waste energy.
Downhill and going fast you may want more travel.
I need someone to help me with trying to determine when you need a range of ~160 -210MM of travel versus 80-150mm of travel when working with big jumps and/or drops.
Here is the reason why I'm not sure about things: When I(myself my opinion) hit jumps I want less travel because I get better pop with my bike and I don't feel like I'm going to sink into the jump. That being said, I have to come down too and 120mm never seems to be too little. Doing 5-6 ft drops with 120mm or 150mm of travel doesn't seem to be much of a different feel either.
Everyone has told me you want allot of travel when you do big drops......well 6 to 8 feet going slow is like doing a jump fast and getting 4 ft of air in some ways.......your hitting the ground faster and harder with the jump.
Jump bikes usually have short travel forks that are stiff and pros do jumps where they sometimes get 10 feet of air so there going to come down 10 ft usually with good speed too.
Freeride bikes and Gravity bikes (if there is such a MTB titled Gravity bike) seem to have a huge amount of travel. I've never seen someone hit a jump with 210mm of travel and I've never seen anyone bottom out with only 150mm of travel on big drops. Is this stuff just marketing or can someone explain to me when you want/need a range of ~ 160 -210MM of travel versus 80-150mm of travel?
Thanks to anyone who responds!:thumbsup:
Downhill and going fast you may want more travel.
I need someone to help me with trying to determine when you need a range of ~160 -210MM of travel versus 80-150mm of travel when working with big jumps and/or drops.
Here is the reason why I'm not sure about things: When I(myself my opinion) hit jumps I want less travel because I get better pop with my bike and I don't feel like I'm going to sink into the jump. That being said, I have to come down too and 120mm never seems to be too little. Doing 5-6 ft drops with 120mm or 150mm of travel doesn't seem to be much of a different feel either.
Everyone has told me you want allot of travel when you do big drops......well 6 to 8 feet going slow is like doing a jump fast and getting 4 ft of air in some ways.......your hitting the ground faster and harder with the jump.
Jump bikes usually have short travel forks that are stiff and pros do jumps where they sometimes get 10 feet of air so there going to come down 10 ft usually with good speed too.
Freeride bikes and Gravity bikes (if there is such a MTB titled Gravity bike) seem to have a huge amount of travel. I've never seen someone hit a jump with 210mm of travel and I've never seen anyone bottom out with only 150mm of travel on big drops. Is this stuff just marketing or can someone explain to me when you want/need a range of ~ 160 -210MM of travel versus 80-150mm of travel?
Thanks to anyone who responds!:thumbsup: