I’d heartily recommend you get one with a tapered steerer!

Why?

Not because it’s a big improvement, not because it’s the next niche thing….. Purely because tapered steerer forks are bloody BARGAINS right now!

And whilst you’re at it, get a 15mm axle too.

I’ve just ordered a pair of 2011 RS Revelation* RLTs for a frankly jaw dropping £315. And as a sweetener, just in case thats not cheap enough you understand, the lovely chaps at Merlin are including a £100+ DT Swiss 240 front hub for precisely £0.00.

All hail the tapered headtube!!!! 😀

*Yes. Revelations. Not Recons. Not Sektors 150mm Revelations.

Thanks for the tip off. Now be a good lad and delete your post.

Hey, I asked about tapered forks a few weeks ago, and never got a reply! They’ve got plenty of them to go round! 😉

Shirley, you’d be wanting the RLT Ti option with the Blackbox damping PP?

If you’ve got them for £315, yeah I’ll have some. 🙂

haha they only list w.c and xx tapereds aftermarket for 2011 and even at trade they’re pricey, £315 is mental cheap.

PeterP – je James have team u turns for 270 (I still think they do). Qr mind but I got a pair for future frame buys!

I have some Maxle Revs. They are very nice.
You do sound like a DFS advert though.

Oh, Rob. Resist, resist… oh go on then. 😉

PP, I thought all the really cheap deals on the basic Revs were all QR rather than Maxle?

Tell me about it !

I was looking for some new 150mm travel forks last weekend to replace my knackered 36 FLOATS. 1.5in, or tapered steerer forks were as cheap as chips everywhere I looked. Trouble is I wanted 11/8in steerer.

I ended up getting, off Merlin, some 2011 Revelation RLT’s for £359.

Not as bargaintastic as yours,PP, but a bargain nontheless.

I lied. I got one reply

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-new-fork-with-this-spec

Captain, go look in the Rockshox section at Merlin. Go on, shoo! 🙂

None of the frames I want have tapered 🙁

Find one you want that does then! 🙂

Maybe I should start advertising?! We have TONS of stock and it’s all great. We get to buy much of it at greater expense than Merlin sells it for because we buy it from the UK distributor!
Business plan needs realigning.

I’ve seen some tapered headsets make the forks look like toothpicks.