I'm a bit cautious of all of the chinese carbon ones all over ebay. Should I be? Anyone got any experience?
I'm waiting for someone else to get some first... 😉
Why are you considering it? I would only do this to get a fork in 1 1/8th straight steerer as there aren't many around any more at an affordable price (even Exotic seem to have stopped selling straight steerer cx forks) but if I needed a tapered steerer I'd get a reputable brand (e.g. Kinesis, PX [cough]) with UK presence as these can be had below £150.
Steerer tube one of the more annoying obsolescences - as far as I understand it, tapered steerers entered CX to help eliminate juddering with canti brakes and stiff carbon forks. Now we're mostly on discs, this is maybe less of a problem. Or maybe not, if the juddering is cause by the lower portion of the wheel suddely 'catching up' with the rest of the bike as the forks 'spring' forwards.
If it wasn't a race bike I'd just get a steel Surly fork anyway...
I have some Trigon ones which are well made and good value.
I bought one of these framesets ran it 2 years fork was faultless 🙂
http://www.speedercycling.com/Carbon-Cyclocross-Disc-Frameset-SC-CX14D-_p32.html
Sold it on as I needed a frame with more clearance so got a pickenflick .. Guess what fork comes with the pickenflick ? Yup same one
Find one of these you'll be fine 🙂