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  • Help me decide what to do (1.5 inch steerer)
  • muddy_fox
    Free Member

    Help! I don’t know what to do.

    It was late at night just before Christmas and I was just off to bed when the CRC sale e-mail popped into my inbox.

    I clicked on it and the first thing I saw was the most bargainous sale of Fox Float 32RL forks reduced from £720 to £180.

    I have been looking for a new set of forks for one of my three dialled bikes PA frames for a while so I clicked on them and added to the basket, checked out and paid.

    It was only a few minutes later that I realised that the forks have a 1.5 inch steerer which of course the PA’s nor any of my other frames have either.

    I thought about cancelling the order but when I checked the following morning they had already been dispatched.

    So what do I do?

    – send them straight back when they arrive?
    – try and sell them on either here or via the bay of E?
    – buy a new frame with a 1.5 inch steerer?
    – A.N. other option?

    Hope you all had a great Christmas.

    jedi
    Full Member

    i make that new frame o’clock 🙂

    Mackem
    Full Member

    Buy an mmmBop or blue pig and stick the fork on there.

    jumping_flea
    Free Member

    Those forks tempted me until I saw the steerer size.

    New bike build for the new year – go on, treat yourself! (Carbon 456?)

    edit – 456 has a tapered headtube sorry!

    dirtbiker100
    Free Member

    i’d say get a ragley – the price of those forks plus the price of those frames = BARGAIN BIKE

    stew1982
    Free Member

    If it sounds to good to be tire……….

    I almost did the same too, but realised before!

    Simon
    Full Member

    I’d send them back.
    By the time you’ve bought a new frame, 1.5 headset and 1.5 stem it’s going to get very expensive, and the forks won’t be such a bargain.

    Simon
    Full Member

    And does anyone really spend £720 on forks?

    muddy_fox
    Free Member

    stew1982 – Member

    If it sounds to good to be true……….

    I almost did the same too, but realised before!

    Yeah, I know, can’t believe I fell for it.

    Rorschach
    Free Member

    Buy a 1/8th csu for £150 and swap them over.

    poltheball
    Free Member

    erm well what i’ve done, is this exactly 😛

    bought those forks, got a cane creek xII headset (reduced from £99.99 to £45) and am now looking for a 20″ ragley mmmbop frame.

    got a bit carried away with the sales etc so it’s turning into a new bike build, but it’ll be worth it once it’s finished 😀

    soo, for roughly £600, this’ll be the spec:

    frame: Ragley Mmmbop
    fork: Fox 32 Float RL
    headset: Cane Creek X-II
    stem: Deity (1.5″ with a 31.8mm clamp)
    bars: Fire-eye FE-318, white
    grips: Superstar Supagrippa, blue with white lockrings
    brakes: Avid Elixir R
    crankset: Shimano SLX
    front mech: Shimano SLX
    rear mech: Shimano Deore (will be upgrading)
    cassette: Shimano Deore (will be upgrading)
    seatpost: FSA carbon
    saddle: WTB Pure V 09 (i think.. :P)
    rims: Alexrim DP17 (i think.. :P)

    not bad for £600, eh? 😀

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