Eye to Eye and stroke for Crosslink.

[Akagi]

Anyone know the nominal eye to eye and stroke for the noleen shock up front off hand?  Also, is it measured from the center of the "eyes"?

[kiwi]

210mm eye to eye i think(for "normal" crosslink)

[Akagi]

I've been looking at swapping the noleen with other shocks, and it looks like 200mm is the max eye to eye that most lightweight shocks are offered in.  darn.

[jeffhop]

fox rp2 comes in a 215mm length as do manitou evolver,swinger 3way air, marzocchi rocco air tst r, rock shox monarch 4.2.

[rapiddescent]

does the noleen on the crosslink have the small hole at one end and the normal 14mm hole at the other?  the reason I'm asking is that my machine shop just sent me some custom bolts that I designed to attach a fox rp23 to the rear of a carbon frame (so you don't need to use washers etc).  I'm wondering whether they'll be reusable for a carbon fork?  I'll post pictures later on.

callum

[pinion]

I tried fitting a swinger 3-way on my crosslink a couple of years ago.  I think the eye-to-eye was 209 mm, so it fit okay.  The problem was that there did not appear to be a way to mount the shock without some part of the body or one of the schrader fill ports interfering with movement of the linkage.  I thought about trying to modify the fork to make some clearance, but I didn't want to ruin the fork.  The swinger also had a longer stroke than the noleen so theoretically it would have increased the travel, but I think the legs start to move the wheel rearward past a certain point.

At least one former member on here made up some adapters to fit a cane creek cloud nine to his crosslink - I think it was FrankD3000 or something like that.  I traded PMs with him on MTBR about the adapters, but he didn't have the drawings anymore.  He offered to try to re-create them when he had time but I decided to go with a longer travel slider fork instead.

Frank

[Akagi]

jeffhop, u are absolutly right.  I was looking at the Fox float series, and it seems that a 8.5 inch shock is available although not listed on Fox website, 8.5 inches = 216mm.  Also, we would need the version without propedal, or a version that propedal can be turned off.  So that means 2004 or earlier (not sure) or RP23 and RP2.  RP3 has no bypass.  The new and cheapest "Float R" goes on ebay for <$100 regularly so that is attractive to me as long as fox can just get replace the propedal valving with a bypass and for an affordable price.  I will look into that.

[kiwi]

does the noleen on the crosslink have the small hole at one end and the normal 14mm hole at the other?  the reason I'm asking is that my machine shop just sent me some custom bolts that I designed to attach a fox rp23 to the rear of a carbon frame (so you don't need to use washers etc).  I'm wondering whether they'll be reusable for a carbon fork?  I'll post pictures later on.

callum

aahhh i think it does,ie the top pivot is about 10 mm but the lower one is bigger perhaps 13 or 14mm(purely mental recollection of my old vector!)

[Colin]

does the noleen on the crosslink have the small hole at one end and the normal 14mm hole at the other?  the reason I'm asking is that my machine shop just sent me some custom bolts that I designed to attach a fox rp23 to the rear of a carbon frame (so you don't need to use washers etc).  I'm wondering whether they'll be reusable for a carbon fork?  I'll post pictures later on.

callum

aahhh i think it does,ie the top pivot is about 10 mm but the lower one is bigger perhaps 13 or 14mm(purely mental recollection of my old vector!)

Just measured a Crosslink and Noleen NR-2.
The upper Shock Bolt is M6. fitting through 27mm wide Shock bushes which fit into 8mm diameter holes in the NR-2.
The lower "Wrist Pin" Shock fixing is 12mm diameter, by 15mm wide, between the two O-Rings and a maximum of 23mm without the O-rings.

Col.

[rapiddescent]

it's got me thinking.  A fox rp23 would fit in there.

[Colin]

it's got me thinking.  A fox rp23 would fit in there.

Please feel free to post me the RP23 for extended (lifetiime) testing.............<GRIN>

Col.

[Akagi]

it's got me thinking.  A fox rp23 would fit in there.

I was just about to commit on a 8.5 x 2.5 shock, but then I realized something....

When the shock is not compressed, it should fit perfectly, but it looks like that the shock body will hit the the brace under compression (the one that connects headtube to the for legs). 

Can someone confirm this?