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Primary Dimension Changes

MacB
Framebuilder
By MacB | 9:10 PM EST, Tue January 03, 2012
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Hi Brent, I'm getting a bit confused, I've been playing around with a new 29er hardtail design. It all seems to work fine until I want to change fork length to see the differences. For example I might have things in at an AtoC of 470(80mm sagged) and ST/HT angles of 73/71. If I then alter the fork AtoC to 490mm I would expect to see the drawing rotate around the rear axle. So the angles slacken approx 1 degree, the BB drop shrink and the ETT and Reach numbers alter to reflect this. What actually happens is the front end just elongates upwards.

Is there something I need to do differently or is this to do with the primary dimensions being set and only alterable manually?....thanks....Al

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Brent

14 years 4 months ago

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Lock frame to observe effect of different forks on a bike

Hi Al,

You'll want to use the Lock frame tool for that. There's info on the Lock frame icon here.

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MacB
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MacB

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Many thanks Brent, that works

Many thanks Brent, that works perfectly....Al

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