sandyman44
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TLDR: Has anyone put a suspension fork on a Vado v1 SL 4.0?
Longer version:
I already have a Creo V1, with futureshock 2.0. I have been using it for quite a lot of UK gravel which involves long , straight, not particularly technical, but very very bumpy rocky descents down hill / moor-land tracks. The 20mm travel futureshock that it has isn't nearly enough to handle those for me. The headset is proprietary (due to the futureshock) so swapping to a suspension fork isn't an option. Adding a suspension stem won't work either - I run a very high stem as I need a very high stack compared to factory (on ANY bike) due to back injury. So I have to be able to use aftermarket high riser solid stems. I already run 47mm gravel tyres at low pressure on 650b's. I've done all that can be with that bike to increase compliance and come to conclusion its not possible to tune it further in the direction I want to .
I already have the Creo SL : I like the SL motor and I have the range extender. So running another SL motor spesh would work fine. I am thinking it might make sense to get a second hand Vado SL v1 4.0 - I understand the 4.0 doesn't have a future shock so has a standard headset... thats the crucial part, swap the fork to a suspension one , which would increase A2C and thus increase stack and decrease head angle, but both of those a good thing for me and my use case. I've done geometry calculations, I think it works. whether I would run the vado with the stock bar, an alt bar like a surly corner, or fully convert it to a gravel flared drop, is a next level of detail question: fork swap is the deal breaker.
and in the "just get a mountain bike" direction: I also already have a 150mm travel full-sus full-fat emtb (not a spesh) and that is "wrong bike" for the type of rides I am talking about. I want light, small motor, good frame load carrying.
thanks
Longer version:
I already have a Creo V1, with futureshock 2.0. I have been using it for quite a lot of UK gravel which involves long , straight, not particularly technical, but very very bumpy rocky descents down hill / moor-land tracks. The 20mm travel futureshock that it has isn't nearly enough to handle those for me. The headset is proprietary (due to the futureshock) so swapping to a suspension fork isn't an option. Adding a suspension stem won't work either - I run a very high stem as I need a very high stack compared to factory (on ANY bike) due to back injury. So I have to be able to use aftermarket high riser solid stems. I already run 47mm gravel tyres at low pressure on 650b's. I've done all that can be with that bike to increase compliance and come to conclusion its not possible to tune it further in the direction I want to .
I already have the Creo SL : I like the SL motor and I have the range extender. So running another SL motor spesh would work fine. I am thinking it might make sense to get a second hand Vado SL v1 4.0 - I understand the 4.0 doesn't have a future shock so has a standard headset... thats the crucial part, swap the fork to a suspension one , which would increase A2C and thus increase stack and decrease head angle, but both of those a good thing for me and my use case. I've done geometry calculations, I think it works. whether I would run the vado with the stock bar, an alt bar like a surly corner, or fully convert it to a gravel flared drop, is a next level of detail question: fork swap is the deal breaker.
and in the "just get a mountain bike" direction: I also already have a 150mm travel full-sus full-fat emtb (not a spesh) and that is "wrong bike" for the type of rides I am talking about. I want light, small motor, good frame load carrying.
thanks
