thank you Santa

daddy said:

Just picked up a 2005 Titus Switchblade
frame (medium). Comes with a Fox Talas
Float RL shock.

Plan to build it up using my Shimano 8spd
setup. Using the XT 8spd shifters, and
XT front & rear der. SRAM cassette & chain.
Pulling the BB7's and SD7's levers from my
Trek.

Undecided on the front fork as of yet. Suggestions?

Will be building this up over the holiday
break. Can't wait to take it over to South
Mountain. :-)

(Santa was nice & early this year).

Hey Daddy-O, nice ride.

Depending on your rockers, you probably have between 3" and 5.7" of
adjustable rear travel. I'd recommend you get a fork that has
adjustable travel, because the Blade's a little ponderous to climb with
a fork extended out much over 110mm. You'll want to dial it down, or if
you can, lock it out for climbing. I have the Manitou Minute on my
Talas Blade, and like it quite a bit. It's plush and responsive on
the balls-out descents, I can adjust it on the fly, and it takes the
medium drops and hits (ie, under 4' just fine). But I've seen em with
mostly Fox forks and a Rock Shox Revelation of Pike, even though I tend
to like Marzocchi a lot, personally.

Have fun, and give Santa a kiss (if that's appropriate)

CDB

Quoted message said:

Hey Daddy-O, nice ride.

Depending on your rockers, you probably have between 3" and 5.7" of
adjustable rear travel. I'd recommend you get a fork that has
adjustable travel, because the Blade's a little ponderous to climb with
a fork extended out much over 110mm. You'll want to dial it down, or if
you can, lock it out for climbing. I have the Manitou Minute on my
Talas Blade, and like it quite a bit. It's plush and responsive on
the balls-out descents, I can adjust it on the fly, and it takes the
medium drops and hits (ie, under 4' just fine). But I've seen em with
mostly Fox forks and a Rock Shox Revelation of Pike, even though I tend
to like Marzocchi a lot, personally.

Have fun, and give Santa a kiss (if that's appropriate)

CDB

I'm a bomber fan as well. :-)

The frame/shock is capable of going the full 5.6/5.7 of travel.

thanks for the insight. Christmas can't come soon enough, (so
that I can get the rest of my build bits). Just anxious to get this
bad boy built up.

as you noted, I've scanned the net and have seen a lot of builds
with either Fox or the Pike. Definitely will get an adjustable
travel fork.

The frame I bought did come with a Manitou Black RTWD fork. (90-120mm
of travel). I can hang out with that for a while, as I build this
up.

Yes, I can give Santa (Wifey) a kiss, (and more). :-)