Fork steerer question

[sleestack71]

I have an old animal (95 or 96 how can I tell) that I'm briging back to life and wanted to get a better fork for it. It has a 1' steerer but all the new forks are 1-1/8". I've heard that all I need to do is remove a reduction shim that proflex used and I will have the 1-1/8" headset, is this correct?

Thanks,

Robert

[orange]

it should be a 1 1/8 headset so maybe you have a reducing headset in there already or a normal 1" headset and 1 1/8" to 1" reducers. Take out the headset and try fitting a 1 1/8" one and away you go :-)

[kiwi]

if it is a 95 or 96 it will have a 1 and 1/8 headset with "spacers" to allow the use of the 1 inch vector,which can be easily removed to allow the use of a 1 and 1/8 unit..(96 animal would have had the gold ods shocks I think,the 95 just the friction damped units)

[sleestack71]

I guess it's a 96 because it has the gold ods. Also does anyone know if the front and rear ods are the same units. The front looks just like the rear with an eyelet pivot bolted on.

[kiwi]

the internals will be very similar but even tho they look the same not sure its a case of swapping the ends....the nolleen shocks look very similar too but i am not sure that you could just swap the ends...