Rigid forks with rack mounts

TheCranker

Anyone know of any? Looking at changing an old Marin Bear Valley to be a tourer. The old suspension forks have about 80mm of travel so I'm guessing I need forks with suspension correction.

Only ones I can find are the Surly Trucker Long Hauls and they don't have any suspenions correction.

Any ideas, help appreciated.

alfablue

By rack mounts do you mean lowrider bosses? Or just mudguard eyelets?

Suspension corrected forks with lowrider bosses will be hard to find, you could get bosses retro-fitted (at a price). Alternatively there are several front rack options that don't require lowrider bosses, some using the V-Brake posts for fitting, or brackets/p-clips.

For example the Tubus Swing, the Sherpa Front, the Ultimate Lowrider, the Blackburn FL1, or the Nitto.

All of these should fit a fork like the Kona Project 2 fork which come in three lengths for 26" wheels (i.e. two suspension corrected lengths). They are also available in single, dounble and triple butted versions, versions with and without disc mounts, and versions for 700c wheels. That said, it is quite tricky to find some of these versions.

There is also the SAlsa CroMoto.

I fitted Kona Project 2 Triple butted v-brake only forks with a 440mm dropout to crown length (suitable for a 100mm suspension corrected frame) to my Rock Lobster Ti MTB which now does touring and commuting duties. The forks are good.

Ah! Just found these: What about theThorn forks from SJS? They have the bosses, and say they will suit 80-100mm suspension correction. Maybe talk to SJS cycles for advice.

TheCranker

Those Thorns looks spot on Alfa. Cheers for that. I'd even looked on the Thorn website and didn't see them. Doh.

It's the lowrider bosses I'm looking for as my current tourer has lowrider bosses and I'm building this for my gf and was hoping to make her bike as similar to mine as possible for ease of maintenance when touring.