I had a bike just like that for a while….

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_atkin/4119554198/]Crash_018[/url] by PeterPoddy, on Flickr

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Nicknoxx – Member
…Ti forks are pretty rare. There are lots of scare stories about them breaking…

Bit like the carbon scaremongering?

Most people are riding around with a pair of large aluminium tubes at the front of their bike and will worry about fatigue on their alloy bars without even thinking about what’s going on below them.

Maybe the real reason we don’t see many Ti forks is the difficulty in finding appropriate tubing.

Nicely thought out bike btw.

Looks very light but a bit anorexic. Needs to eat some protein and hit the gym a bit.

Looks like a labour of love.

Liking the flexibility to rag it over the moors off road or cycle tour. Is this the ‘do it all’ bike?

Good job and admirable attention to detail.

Very nice but until you attach the wicker basket to the front it won’t be complete.
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wl – If you’re talking about the bike, well each to their own, but if you taking about the fork, the reason the mudguard eyes are like that is because Walt has deliberately fixed the dropout ‘backwards’ into the fork to keep the wheel in under braking.

LOL at PeterPoddy

takisawa2 – Member
I would have gone for a Ti fork also, if such a thing exists.

You’ve presumably never ridden one, they are crap.

cynic-al – Member

takisawa2 – Member
I would have gone for a Ti fork also, if such a thing exists.

You’ve presumably never ridden one, they are crap.

I think Jeff Jones would disagree with you there.

Uh OK conventional ones are crap IME etc YMMV WTF OMG

cynic-al – Member
Uh OK conventional ones are crap IME etc YMMV WTF OMG

I’d agree with you there. Plus Jones forks (and bikes) mostly look toss.

That bike up there is what’s great about bikes – perfect for the guy who owns it, 101 kinds of wrong for everyone else.

Long may it continue.

Oh, now I’m offended Sideways Tim, I likes how my Jones looks 🙂

ti forks are not crap. crap (ti or anything) forks are crap.

if you want a nice ti fork, check darren crisp.

black sheep are pretty flexy, but for certain weights of rider and types of riding thats good.

chi ti, the metal itself is actually crap. so put crap IN get crap OUT.

chi ti, the metal itself is actually crap. so put crap IN get crap OUT.

Not true, as Mark Lynskey himself said:-

“As to the raw materials; did you know that everybody’s starter materials (tube hollows) come from either Russia or China. Yes that includes Sandvick, Haynes, Wolverine, and Reynolds. Yes the tubes that these companies create using Chinese and Russian raw materials do in fact go to aerospace/defense use as well as bicycle frames (including ours).”

read his full statement at
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49167