[Closed] White forks - urgghh

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Whats wrong with it??

Where do you stand on yellow?

I like my white forks!

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The OP's bike 🙂

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They do look inferior, but I have to let them fly based on my rule of "All bike bits must be black, with the exception of the frame and forks which can be any colour you like". If you let those with no taste have white forks it will hopefully stop them having gold anodized shit everywhere.

Oh...

wohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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die, white fork haterz

But my bike has white logo's, pedals etc, so white forks look 'right'.

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Basically... you're wrong! This is whats known as 'just the right amount of white'.....

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All the photos so far have made my point for me, thanks 😛

(Apart from one, which is just acceptable, and black would still look better. Not saying which though...)

Looks better in white on the Stumpjumper but black on the Enduro

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Looks better in white on the Stumpjumper

Never mind the forks... white rims!!!!

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(I will admit to having sinned with white forks myself in the past, because they were the cheapest ones available in that colour. In my defence, they do look far worse now a lot of them have black stanchions)

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But my frame is white. Black forks would look crap.

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Although normally I would agree with you.

I hated my white Forks. So while the frame was away for repainting, I repainted stripped the forks and painted them satin black with 2015 Fox heritage decals

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Did someone say white forks and rims?

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Although the white cables might have been a step too far 🙂

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Just the forks on this one.

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I wouldn't buy white forks, they show the battle scars and scuffs all too easily.
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Op, you may as well have posted a "show me your white forked steeds of gnar" type thread.

Best of both worlds - black forks with white bits?

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Got them to match the front hub which was a cheap mismatched wheelset from Superstar with white front and black rear.

My entire Bike is White (Whyte 629) so it would look really Gash with Black Forks!

when Specialized gave me a warranty frame after finding a crack, it turned up and was bright red.

then my black Fox forks started creaking in the CSU out of warranty, and I found some white Manitous going cheap on CRC.

they actually look much better with my red frame, than the black Fox forks did

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I think both of my bikes would look terrible with black forks;

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I don't think I've owned a pair of black forks

Quadra 21 were yellow, pair of Dukes that were dark blue, Some lurid Green Marz things, original Fox were silver, couple of Magura models that were white, then a pair of white Lyriks and now white Revs...

Edit, and a set of Red Manitous X verts

I think either the OP is

1) A big racist
2) once went black and doesn't want to go back

I think both of my bikes would look terrible with black forks;

You think wrong.

White stem too-

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We need to see a side-on shot of that mega-structure seatpost : )

I like mine, think they look much better than black with a bright, raw frame.

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I don't mind the white forks on my High Latitude. Black would possibly look a bit better but it's what the bike came with and I'm not swapping them just because of the colour 🙂

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White forks vs black forks?
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jameso - are you related to a bloke who used to ride around Leicester we dubbed 'Accessory Man'...for obvious reasons? 😉

White forks? Fine.

White forks with black stanchions? Pass the eye bleach.

Only Tracey's stumpy pulls it off because of the black/white frame.

munrobiker - Member
........If you let those with no taste have white forks it will hopefully stop them having gold anodized shit everywhere.

Oh...

Guilty as charged. 🙂

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Oh.......

Quite white you're bloody well white.
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Bigblackshed, appreciate the way you have colour coordinated the sidewalls, hoses and cables 😀

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Yeah, white fork(s) just looks wrong.......

Lots of white bits.

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I chose white forks 'cos they tie in with the downtube logo...

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Ooops.

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chortle

Count yourself lucky, fork on my Helius is brown, or Mahogany as RS liked to call it.

think this might just be too much for the OP
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Forgiveable if you're thirteen though?
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And the same forks and a few bits of gold ano when he built this at fifteen?
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He he....
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It's a sad state of affairs when the Two Permissible Colours of forks are (1) white or (2) black.

Colour-matching looks great:

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Contrast looks great:

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Wow! also looks great:

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Of the Two Permissible Colours, I prefer white, except when black is better. Black is often better.

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Red and green should never be seen.

Well done bigdummy. You've blown the OP's point out of the water. What forks looks lovely compared with that horrible red and green combo.

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Black forks would somewhat ruin the orange and white theme I have going on....

Red and green should never be seen.

Fair point. In my defence, I thought they were orange. Which, of course, also looks epic:

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I have opened the Box of Awesome Fork Colours, and now I cannot close it:

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Yellow. It goes so well with yellow. And indeed all the other colours:

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Rockshox used to give us cool forks. What happened?

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Epic. Epic. Epic.

Why did this happen? When did everyone decide that there were only Two Permissible Fork Colours? Why on earth were they (1) Black and (2) White? Couldn't they at least have been (1) Buttercup Yellow and (2) Iridescent Red? The world is a sadder, poorer place with these monochrome suspension component conventions....

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I was happy with the white forks as the bike had a smattering of white on it.

moar non-black forks
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muhuwahaha

Big Dummy- have you not eyes????

Anyway, here's my bike (well, before I cracked it and they sent me a revolting coloured frame). Black is best.

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rocketman - I salute you.

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Whoever said I should have called this thread 'show me pics of your white forks' was right, that would have been a more apt title

I'm not fundamentally opposed to coloured forks either, as long as the colour scheme goes with the rest of the bike - I like that Ros 9 above

I'm also not against the build and ride it approach, and not worrying about colour

But looking at some of the pics it seems that effort was put into the rest of the bike, and then you painted your forks with tipp-ex

(White forks with a white frame for me)

But looking at some of the pics it seems that effort was put into the rest of the bike, and then you painted your forks with tipp-ex

and some of us are sat on top of the bike while we ride it looking down the trail at where we are going...

I have no excuse OP, mine were cheap...

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and some of us are sat on top of the bike while we ride it looking down the trail at where we are going...

Might as well look like a clown painted it then 😆

Again - cheap, I get it!
Don't care, I get it!

[I also get the everyone has a different opinion, it's just that [i]my[/i] opinion is obviously right! 😛 ]

as long as the colour scheme goes with the rest of the bike

I'm with the op .
Apart from on white bikes .
& the white fork ,white rim was acceptable.

Had to be white for my forks....... (they only come in white) because they're the smoothest silky forks available.
They also add to my already silly bling colour scheme.

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Everyone wanted white forks a few years back, what's wrong with 'em? I assume it's down to fashion so expect the OP to start a thread in a year or two where they get upset with black forks, especially those with black stanchions.

colournoise - is your Alpine a 26er? I fancy a change from my 26er Five and can't be faffed with changing my wheels and forks... What do you reckon to it? If I got one it'd have to be one of the very last ones before the 27.5 as the swingarms etc are a little more 'refined' than the earlier Alpines...

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I still want a set of the white forks for my io...

Black is quicker anyway

It's so stealthy that the wind doesn't know you're there, makes you a trail ninja

If I got one it'd have to be one of the very last ones before the 27.5 as the swingarms etc are a little more 'refined' than the earlier Alpines...

They still sell brand new 26" Alpines if you want one.

Basically the same bike, just different components...

Black bike, white forks, black stanchions:

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White bike, white forks, black stanchions:

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on the black bike, I am considering painting the forks black / dark grey... but I am not sure I can be bothered to be honest, and not even sure it will look 'better'.

FWIW, both forks bought for their function, not their colour. There was no colour option with them.

I have some black forks with black stanchions - anyone want to swap?