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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 - Membertakisawa2 - 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