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General => Tech Forum => Topic started by: GinSonic on May 15, 2007, 06:15:20 pm

Title: Swapped front fork or OEM???
Post by: GinSonic on May 15, 2007, 06:15:20 pm

Hey all;
Check this out!

(http://image3.usednanaimo.com/YCD3115839.1.jpg)

If anyone cares to know, it's a Rocky Mountain Experience.

As the topic title asks; Is it or not?
I was under the impression that the Girven front fork was unique to our Proflex/K2's.

Anyone care to enlighten me on this?
  G.

Title: Re: Swapped front fork or OEM???
Post by: orange on May 15, 2007, 07:00:01 pm

I guess they could have been added afterwards. The bike manufacturer Orange, no relation ;-) , used these forks for a while. A good place to ask this question would be www.retrobike.co.uk they'll definitely have an answer for you there, if nobody does here.

Title: Re: Swapped front fork or OEM???
Post by: Colin on May 15, 2007, 09:04:48 pm

Vectors and Crosslinks were always available as After Market options for customer fitting to other bikes. I don't know if any other manufacturers fitted them as standard?

Col

Title: Re: Swapped front fork or OEM???
Post by: GinSonic on May 16, 2007, 04:07:35 am

Well, from what I've gathered thus far, this bike is circa '91-'92. I'm venturing a guess that the OEM front was not a sus fork. Probably a steel fork.

I'd rock that ol' Rocky Mountain. It's for sale right now on UsedNanaimo.com. {An hour and a half drive from my location.}That's where I got the pic.

Okay. Enough Rocky Mountain.
Back to Proflex/K2's!
  G.