I have a vintage S-Works Stumpjumper. It’s just been hanging but I’m thinking of converting it to a gravel bike for a project. Is this realistic? What would be involved? Does a rigid fork exist for this application? Sorry for what may seem like obvious questions but I have little experience in this manner of bike conversion.
How vintage? 26†wheel or 29er?
Lots of “brand name†options for carbon or steel rigid 29er forks. More alibaba type options for carbon 26†options.
I believe Schwalbe makes a 29er g-ones which would be good for gravel.
This is circa 1994. 26" wheel.
I have a vintage S-Works Stumpjumper. It’s just been hanging but I’m thinking of converting it to a gravel bike for a project. Is this realistic? What would be involved? Does a rigid fork exist for this application? Sorry for what may seem like obvious questions but I have little experience in this manner of bike conversion.
Sure, it can be done. But why change out the fork? Here is a 29er MTB that l converted to gravel and road with a shimano 105 road groupset and an 80mm travel suspension fork. It worked great. What questions ya got?
Just run what you’ve got. You would have to find a cantilever brake rigid fork for what is probably a 1-in steer tube and change out some tires and then probably mess around with the gearing. Just pump up the tires and go and see how you like the sport for you dump any money into that thing
I rode with a guy at the lutsen 99er last year for a while, he was on about that era stumpy with a modern gx drive train and V brakes.
Only your imagination and wallet limits what that bike can be. I would go to a rigid carbon fork for the weight savings, or scour the interwebs for a 10 year old 26" xc fork like a manitou R7.