I believe it's possible to run a 170mm fork if you want more travel up front, but it will raise your BB height and slack the rest of the bike out a bit. You'll want to stick with the stock 210x55mm stroke shock to avoid damaging the frame, but for more rear wheel travel, Cascade Components makes a link that increases rear wheel travel to 158mm with a more supportive kinematic on the stock shock size.
If your bike is in the full 29" configuration with 150mm of travel, another option is to switch to the mullet configuration using the link Specialized makes. The mullet link increases rear wheel travel to 155mm but also requires a 27.5" rear wheel.
Is there any way to put bigger forks and shocks with more travel on a stumpjumper alloy? If so what forkd and shocks?
Long and short of it is "not really", but I'd like to know which model you have.
As the above poster noted, you can put a longer travel fork on it and eek a tiny bit more out of the rear end. However, I'd suggest selling the bike and finding a longer travel steed if this is what you really want. The bike is excellent in out-of-the-box trim and unless you really know what you are after (IE, you are a racer and tweaking for fractions of a second), you'll probably just spend money and get very little (if any) real performance gains.
This is all coming from someone who has tested a lot of frames over the years and owns a Stumpy EVO alloy (and loves it - only change I made was the bar). I did throw a EXT coil on it when the OEM fox shock blew up and honestly, I would not recommend most riders throw all that coin at the bike unless they have specific needs that warrant it.
Specialized is doing a very good job putting together a bike that is hard to really "upgrade", even if money isn't really an object.
I believe it's possible to run a 170mm fork if you want more travel up front, but it will raise your BB height and slack the rest of the bike out a bit. You'll want to stick with the stock 210x55mm stroke shock to avoid damaging the frame, but for more rear wheel travel, Cascade Components makes a link that increases rear wheel travel to 158mm with a more supportive kinematic on the stock shock size.
If your bike is in the full 29" configuration with 150mm of travel, another option is to switch to the mullet configuration using the link Specialized makes. The mullet link increases rear wheel travel to 155mm but also requires a 27.5" rear wheel.
Long and short of it is "not really", but I'd like to know which model you have.
As the above poster noted, you can put a longer travel fork on it and eek a tiny bit more out of the rear end. However, I'd suggest selling the bike and finding a longer travel steed if this is what you really want. The bike is excellent in out-of-the-box trim and unless you really know what you are after (IE, you are a racer and tweaking for fractions of a second), you'll probably just spend money and get very little (if any) real performance gains.
This is all coming from someone who has tested a lot of frames over the years and owns a Stumpy EVO alloy (and loves it - only change I made was the bar). I did throw a EXT coil on it when the OEM fox shock blew up and honestly, I would not recommend most riders throw all that coin at the bike unless they have specific needs that warrant it.
Specialized is doing a very good job putting together a bike that is hard to really "upgrade", even if money isn't really an object.
YMMV.
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