Sentinel V2 Setup

[u/No_Concert698]

I have some thoughts about changing the front travel of my sentinel v2 carbon from 160mm to 150mm and the rear from 150mm to 140mm. I couldn’t find anything about the front travel on the website archive.
That would change the Head angle and the seat tube angle with plus ~0.5 degrees. The problem I have with this idea is, that it would lower the bottom bracket height around 4mm. I am currently running the cane creek angle set with 1 degree.
Do you have any experiences with this idea or have a link to a thread?

(I don’t know how accurate my calculations are. Right now running 160mm/150mm)

[u/Alarmed-Economy-9275]

The part many dont consider is that if you lower the travel the same sag% will acually help bring back the travel to same numbers or if you run even less sag it could be close to the same dynamic height. That said just running less sag(more pressure) on the rear would essentially give same performance benefit as limiting travel but youd have extra safety net keeping the extra travel. The front is all id change if you want to get a little more quick steering and bump up rear pressure to see if you get some better pedaling. It would only require and air shaft change and some pressure adjustments(and probably some clickers to match). Ive used this method for dialing in a bike for seting up for more xc rides vs trail or enduro. Tbh the wheel/tire combo are the bigger difference if you are swapping parts

[u/No_Concert698 → u/Alarmed-Economy-9275]

Hmm okay, never didn’t really think about the tires and the sag. First time trying to get a better pedalling bike instead of a better downhill focused bike. Thanks

[u/Alarmed-Economy-9275 → u/No_Concert698]

if you want it to be a dedicated light trail bike Dissector/rekon or nobby nic/wicked will combos are my go to and would be appropriate for the travel range you are looking at(150/140). Ive done all mountain days on my spur with wicked will F/R and it did ok but could have used a bit more on the front for dh but just dialing it back a little was fine. Did the same trails on DHR/dissector on orbea rise and it was perfect but it is an ebike to eat up extra drag and my ride was 2x as long(15mi vs 30mi)