Look Fournales v Crosslinks

[Colin]

Hi there,  I have ridden the fournales fork as they are on my bike at the momement  and they are very good. Firstly the travel claimed is what you get and secondly it is cadillac smooth. On small stuff they are amazing and they gobble up the larger stuff without drama. The small bump sensitivity is poss due to a negative spring and a small elastomer mount which compresses slightly.

Brake dive is an issue if you do not get the air pressure correct but this is true for any fork. Seperate rebud/  compression damping would have been nice but hey ho. The weight is amazing and chaps at the local bike shop were impressed at how good an eleven year old bike can be!! : .

Hmmmmmm........................so, looking at the photo of the XP-8, I'm pretty certain that those Fournales are SMALL's aren't they?

You say elsewhere that your XP-8 is a "way large" [sic] (WAY BIG). The headtube inc headset length on my Medium is 145mm which exceeds the maximum recommended headtube length for a small Fournales of 137mm.......................not by much though............

and a Way Big will have an even bigger headtube length I think? You sure you've got a a Way Big? it will be a 20" frame if it is.

They obviously fit, but maybe their geometry isn't perfect? As per, if you fit a pair of Crosslinks without getting the "critical measurement" correct..................

Do they work all OK? Any fitting probs? what is the headtube length on your XP-8?

But hey, they look great so maybe I'll reconsider fitting my SMALL's to my XP-X !!!!!

Col...............

[xp8-er]

You are right about the small fournales fork  not fitting a way large proflex as the headtube is beyond the range for   
the small fork ,  but the fournales fork i have is the fabled medium . I tried to find a medium for ages and ebay was a no go and gedi bikes did not reply to my e-mails.....!

In the end i actually got my fork directly from fournales in france using franglais and  google translation tools!!!. I don't know if they have any more though as they seemed suprised yet pleased at the request for a mtb fork. The downside was the price 440 euros however the fork is sooooo coool  that as a piece of bike art its worth it!!

I see the fournales as the crosslink /  vector that never happened so it felt right to blow that amount, more importantly i didn't tell the wife


ps,  you could fit a large or extra large fornales to a medium/ small proflex, but as the pictures on the gedi bikes website show it looks weird and i doubt the wisdom of using a 2 piece headtube being braced by an excess of spacers.


cheers steve

[purple gerbil]

and here we have some more for sale..
and guess what? i have just measured my 862 16"(1992) including cane creek h/set & spacers.
***AND IT FITS BANG ON***but i am tempted and skint as i just bought a new car..("$@%?+)=bugger.
so anyone with 92-93-94 bikes head for the tape measure!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Look-VTT-Fournales-Carbon-Kinetic-Shock-Fork-Size-Small_W0QQitemZ300199638896QQihZ020QQcategoryZ36135QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Ziggy]

Anyone know what the diameter of the fournales legs are?  & whether the disk-mounts are available separately?  You can see where I'm going with this... 

[kiwi]

Anyone know what the diameter of the fournales legs are?  & whether the disk-mounts are available separately?  You can see where I'm going with this... 

dont forget the crosslink/vector are slightly D shaped

[kiwi]

 i beleive all the x55 and x56 bikes had the same headtube....its only the x57 and later that went to the longer headtubes...??

[Carbon_Angus]

so these will not fit a way big WC frame head tube circa '98?

noleen made longer legs for the way big, too.