jasper83

I am wondering whether there are any advantages of a 20mm through axle rigid fork for trials? I have only found a couple of forks that are rigid with a 20mm through axle on them and they are classed as a jump fork, these are the: Identiti - Rebate 1420 forks, Dmr - Trailblade 2 forks, Funn - stiffy rigid forks. With these being a dirt jump style fork I'm not sure if they would be any good for trials use or if they would have any advantages over a conventional rigid fork other than these cost more.Any information to whether any of them would be any good for trials would be most appreciated

Hi I am new to this forum and relatively new to trials.I stopped riding for a while then started up again about nine months ago.I've been mainly riding street doing stair drops,pulling coasts,doing spins and the likes.Recently I bought a giant stp and set it up rigid to ride trials and after many handlebar and stem combinations decided to invest in a short travel suspension fork to take the sting out a bit,Ryan leech runs a really short travel marzocchi bomer style fork and jeff lenosky uses a rock shox pike I'm unsure whether he uses an air or spring unit. After a lot of thought and searching I decided to invest in the Rock shox pike 426 U-turn with a pop lock on the floodgate control and some extra stiff springs and I find when wound down to 95mm with the pop lock on i get a really nice urban assault bike good for tricks and trials,oh yeah and the occasional stair drop with the forks wound out to 140mm. I really like the idea of free trials on bikes that look like ordinary mountain bikes with stiff short travel suspension forks and seats.I have nothing against long and low trials specific bikes I just think it looks so much better to see a bike you would not expect to be on top of something on top of it. Has anyone got any thoughts on these types of bikes or own something similar as I dont see many of them about ? ? ?

Yeah i'd be up for a sat afternoon ride, I'm not the most skilled of riders but I can ride a little trials I live in Ellesmere Port and its only a short drive/train ride away

This is my beloved Giant Stp in both guises for street and trials, I use a 26 tooth front ring wich is pretty big for trials but it works well for street as well I think it gives me the best of both worlds and I can actually ride the shops on it , I use a 9 speed saint/tiagra gear set up without a chain device, I am currently using a front 203mm juicy seven disc and a magura hs33 hydraulic rim brake on the rear but im going to be using a 180mm rear juicy seven so i can swap between my base holy trials wheelset and my mavic 321 disc wheelset, Imy base wheels are good strong and light for trials but without eyeleghts they need truing all the time so i like the mavics for street abuse because i can be a little harder on these,I'm currently running my rock shock pikes with extra firm springs untill I get some 20mm through axle rigids to fit my wheels,All in all I love my Stp its not a true trials specific stock bike but if its good enough for the legend of free trials that is Jeff Lenosky then its good enough for me and I love the hydroformed frame