You must know the length of your steering tube on the Surron before buying a new fork, especially if you are shopping used forks. Be sure to watch this for some helpful tips prior to upgrading your fork.
You need a little gap between the stem and the steerer tube because when you tighten the top cap you need a little space to preload the bearings. The stem cannot be flush to the steerer tube unless you make it flush then add a spacer above the stem like I do. Then you can have the full clamping surface of the stem and still be able to preload the headset bearings.
After watching @KMcFarty's video I realized there is another option. If you use a direct mount steering stem which are common with DH mountain bikes you can go down to a 7" steering tube length because you don't need the extra 2" for a steering stem! I've never owned a DH MTB so I didn't realize they had moved to a direct mount stem. Check out his awesome mod video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IZiyC6iff2g.html
was just about to say the same thing... steer tube length is not an issue when you switch to direct 31.8mm handlebar mounts, that mount on the upper assemble of the tree
Not sure what you mean. The SurRon uses a traditional clamp on steering stem which requires about 40mm of steer tube ABOVE the triple clamp to attach to. If you use a direct mount bolted directly to the upper triple clamp you don’t need that extra 40mm of tube
Any DM stem that fits a 31.8 bar will work. Unfortunately we are sold out of those and probably won’t have more for a month or more. Many are buying FUNN off eBay
That's definitely a bad excuse specially when they can heat the cases with a standard electric heat stripper gun & for the sur ron why don't you press the tube out of the bottom yoke do it that way
They ended up breaking my engine case on the Honda :-/ just got it back after many weeks! I might need to redo this video I also learned another trick, another person was using 6.25” stems by replacing the OEM headset and bearings with a different setup that changed the overall head tube length of the frame.
