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Best place? On one are £150. Must be 1 1/8 and cheep for rigid/pub build
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It is a form of very cheap carbon & I find it is pretty stiff. Dunno about the rest of of your specification.
As eskay said. The exotics are v good. There's even a cheaper alu version if its just for a pub build.
I put a pair of the alu exotic ones on my wife's bike. They're still light and have been fine.
The Exotics look good. The website looks very familiar- Discobrakes?
Three options (1 29/650)- but two are these lengths?
F0945 44.5cm 26" Wheel
F0925 42.5cm 26" Wheel
Why go for 44.5 (purely if you want more tyre clearance or is it axle to crown?)
Why go for 44.5 (purely if you want more tyre clearance or is it axle to crown?)
To get the right jometry on a long travel frame.
445 is about a sagged 100mm 26er fork comparison. Eg Reba A-C is 473 un-sagged.
425 would replace an 80mm 26er fork.
A really long travel 26er fork would be best replaced by a 29er rigid, so about 460-470mm rigid A-C.
Exotics are excellent forks; light, strong and smooth riding.
Ah cheers Yak. I guestimate the ideal length for my frame was a 130mm travel fork (SC Chameleon) so will look at the ATC's.
Not carbon, but I have used some of these Mosso forks for a few builds which are good value for money, very light and never had any issues, I think there are carbon and V brake versions available too:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l2632.R2.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xmosso+fork&_nkw=mosso+fork&_sacat=7294&_from=R40
If it's just for a pub bike, then why carbon? You could get a set of Cromotos for two-thirds of your budget.
Fancy carbon. I'm not going to put secondhand old FSA high rise bars on either 😉 8)
hora - MemberThe Exotics look good. The website looks very familiar- Discobrakes?
Aye, same company.
If you're going carbon you're going to be hard pushed to beat Exotic, they're pretty much the cheapest branded option and they're also dead good. Unless you want stiff- they're really not that. But that's cool, it works absolutely fine (is quite good sometimes, I thought of it as horizontal travel 😉 )
But yeah for a cheap pub bike fork I'd be putting cheap pub bike forks on it personally...