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Inspired by an earlier thread I too will probably save myself £2k this summer and lighten my existing bike rather than splashing out on a new roadie! So, what carbon fork? Was looking at the Kinesis line-up, DC37 looks reasonable. Cost is not an issue, would like something around 600g or less as this will drop about a pound in weight. Don't want something that is going to change the handling/comfort too much as I like the way it rides at the moment. Needs to be disc only (for aesthetics!) with eyelets. Crown drilled for mudguard preferable.
SJSC do this carbon fork:
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/evolution-a704-carbon-trekking-disc-forks-700c-1-1-8-inch-ahead-prod25965/
or this titanium number
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/ora-titanium-cyclocross-700c-disc-fork-1-1-8-inch-steerer-prod24706/
I have no experience of either, they are fitting them to their new Mercury sport bike.
I've found a good looking one in a German cyclo-cross shop for a good price. I'll scour my history and try and find it....
Found it!
http://shop4cross.de/komponenten/gabeln/gabel-s4c-disc-eylets.html
No idea if its any good, but I'm going to get one for my new build next month. Looks alright to me.
Bit or a dearth of carbon cross/touring forks at a reasonable price.
IR's looks reasonable. I got a Vapour style one on ebay for £70 which I might be welling soon.
Something close to 390mm, it's shorter than many aftermarket forks. The Cotic X carbon fork is same as the one Genesis used to use on the original CdF (it comes in pivot or disc versions), so same a-c length I expect.
[quote> http://shop4cross.de/komponenten/gabeln/gabel-s4c-disc-eylets.html
No idea if its any good, but I'm going to get one for my new build next month. Looks alright to me.
Ta, that's that looks like it might be a winner. Ticks all the boxes, alright to look at & cheap enough to take a punt on.
zilog6128 - ygm
I'd be tempted to change the wheels first, I'm thinking some Hope and Stan's 29er wheels, will make the bike a lot lighter and where you'll notice it most.
yeah, I swapped the wheels when I bought it for some Open Pros (Hope rear, dynamo front) as the stock wheels/tyres sounded pretty terrible. Already have carbon bars with a carbon post on the way so I think a carbon fork will round it off nicely.
Nice, if those forks are anything like the old windwood forks I'd not much fancy a disk on as they were flexarama offroad with cantilevers, mine are still in the shed...