Looking to replace the tired carbon/alu forks on my Bianchi road bike with a full carbon pair.
Looking for some second hand Bianchi ones ideally, but they all seem to have rather short steerer tubes on that well-known online auction site.
For less money (£50-ish) I could pick up some brand new, un-cut full carbon forks from the same place.
Anybody have any experience of these or can recommend any in particular ?
Look nice enough, but a bit cheap perhaps ?
TIA
Honestly, I'd be far too concerned with regards to safety to ever risk it. I wouldn't say it's worth saving the extra £50 or even £100 over a reputable brand given how severe the risk could be. I'm sure you already know this though!
Yes of course, but a lot of people seem to buy them. Interested to know how they fare in reality, maybe they're actually ok ?
I picked my last set up from Planet-X on some bizarre bargainous pricing anomaly that they do every now and then, about £70 I think, and excellent quality. You can get an entire CF frameset from them for less than some forks
https://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/bianchi-fork-recall-2017-50555/
https://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/enve-recalls-carbon-road-disc-forks-46437/
https://www.velonews.com/2016/02/news/enve-issues-recall-on-carbon-road-disc-forks_395968
https://www.bikeworldiowa.com/articles/giant-bicycle-recalls-carbon-road-forks-pg52.htm
https://www.bikebiz.com/business/why-isnt-the-bike-industry-scanning-composites-for-flaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJRLs0axrE
^^ So if even branded forks can be shonky, might as well go with cheap ones then?
Is that your point? 😃
Bought some cheap Chinese ones off fleabay… bloody things tried to kill me! All looked OK, but developed a huge wobble over around 18mph - have a video of them rocking backwards and forwards with the front brake on, but no way I'd waste my time trying to upload it - ended up buying a new F&F off Planet X in one the sales...
Decent/known brand like Hylix etc I think you'd be OK.
SJS Cycles have a fair range of forks.