wanting some as title tapered steerer and 15mm maxel, what are my choices (not wanting to spend no more than £150 ideally) 2nd or brand new
Carbon Cycles Exotic forks come in 29er with what is described as QR15; is that maxle?
Anyway, looking at the thick end of £200 or thereabouts for new, here:
https://www.carboncycles.cc/?s=0&c=103&p=1786&tb=001
The far right tab, below the pics.
I went Chinese carbon for exactly that...
youll probably die, but I haven’t so far....
dont buy the cheapest, I went for the well regarded ican branded ones
yeah seen those and look nice, but my mate had one of there carbon seatposts and it snapped on him, so im a little wary on exotic stuff.
anyone else had the ebay carbon ones experiance? i have seen the ican ones and the hylix ones ?
Shame, just checked on the Alpkit Pathfinder forks I'd had my eye on, they've been discontinued... Looks like the Exotic ones are out of stock also!
These are really nice forks. Although the steerer is straight, the crown is sized to take a tapered steerer - so when you install them on a tapered head tube, they match the head tube diameter as an actual tapered fork would. Just use a crown race adaptor to seat the bearing on the fork.
https://www.carboncycles.cc/?s=0&c=43&p=1760&tb=001
A Travers prong perhaps ?
I had some older 29er Exotics (QR and straight steerer), I used to put them in the front of my ragley ti and go #enduromincing. Then I sold them to Scotroutes who probably put more miles on them in a month than I would in a year. As far as I know, still going... I'd get another like a shot.
I’ve a set of the ican 29er forks with a thru axle, think it’s 15mm.
Very good so far, zero fatalities to report.
I can also report that as of early June, Scotroutes encountered no fatal fork based incidents.
Although he does fall off with alarming regularity.
I picked up some Genesis tarn forms for £120 off here. Well made.
Cheers guys, ideally i'd like to pic up a set of whiskey no9, travers prong, or niner RDO second hand
I have a pair of Whiskey forks that fit the bill. Can have them for £150 although one of the brake bolt threads has lost a few of the first threads. Only have a couple of hundred miles on them and are in fantastic condition otherwise.
Cheers can you send me pics to jonathantraverse@hotmail.co.uk
Will do this afternoon
I recently bought a set of Tandell Bikes carbon forks, so Chinese carbon. Quality is excellent and I think I paid around £160 inc import duty. They are boost though, incase thats a problem.
Second the Travers prong...
I've owed a few carbon forks, and ridden several, and by far and away the prong is incredible!!
It feels like a 30mm suspension fork..it's hard to explain, but really does!!
DrP