Rat II Hawthorne Zep

[JOEL]

Cool setup! FYI: I rebuilt one of those Girvins recently, and there's a crazy group of Proflex MTB collectors in Scotland who are making new/improved elastomers for that fork.

Google: Rapid Decent Scotland

 

[rustyspoke66]

Thanks for the tip. Looks like the site is shutting down but I do have some spare parts I picked up so I can mess around with it a bit. The newer fork has a new bracket on top that allows you to use a standard 1" aheadset stem so I think I will try that next.

 

[46powerwagon]

Have you done anything with this Hawthorne? Would like to see what you have done. It looks like it could be a wild rat!!!Thanks

 

[ozzmonaut]

I don't kbow a lot about those forks, but it would be nice if you could switch the fork tubes so that the dropouts are in the front. The front wheel looks a bit close to the frame.

 

[rustyspoke66]

I haven't done anything with the Hawthorne yet, but even though the wheel base looks short it's 1/2 inch longer than stock.

 

[Beaverdam]

The amount of wheel behind the fork might make it look closer. Holding the edge of a piece of paper at the CL of the head tube shows just a little trail, I'd leave it alone.

 

[hotrodbob]

looks like a mean bike