Carbon Road Disc Fork with Mudguard Mounts

Cyclosis

Anyone know of a carbon road disc fork with mudguard mounts?

Ideally I'd like thru axle, but I realise that's a long shot.

Cheers!

meanredspider

http://www.volagi.com/shop/liscio-fork/

Not thru axles but I simply don't see the point of them on a road bike in any case n

Cyclosis

Great shout on the Volagi fork. Good option.

My thinking on thru axles is:

-- Stiffer front end
-- Less/no fork flex resulting in pad rub and the annoying pinging/noise
-- Always getting the disc in the same place every time when changing wheels, reducing/eliminating chance of above.
-- Greater front wheel security

Only option i've found so far is the Whisky Parts No. 9 Road fork, which doesn't appear to allow guards. It's a shame as there are numerous production frames appearing with thru axles and guards.

ugo.santalucia

What kind of steerer?

Cyclosis

ugo.santalucia wrote:

What kind of steerer?

Doesn't actually matter as this is for a custom build. Most likely be using a 44mm head-toob.

meanredspider

Cyclosis wrote:

Great shout on the Volagi fork. Good option.

My thinking on thru axles is:

-- Stiffer front end
-- Less/no fork flex resulting in pad rub and the annoying pinging/noise
-- Always getting the disc in the same place every time when changing wheels, reducing/eliminating chance of above.
-- Greater front wheel security

Only option i've found so far is the Whisky Parts No. 9 Road fork, which doesn't appear to allow guards. It's a shame as there are numerous production frames appearing with thru axles and guards.

Well, after 3-4 years of using mine, I can tell you none of those are issues for me. Thoroughly tested on Alpe D'Huez this year.

ugo.santalucia

Cyclosis wrote:

Great shout on the Volagi fork. Good option.

My thinking on thru axles is:

-- Stiffer front end
-- Less/no fork flex resulting in pad rub and the annoying pinging/noise
-- Always getting the disc in the same place every time when changing wheels, reducing/eliminating chance of above.
-- Greater front wheel security

Only option i've found so far is the Whisky Parts No. 9 Road fork, which doesn't appear to allow guards. It's a shame as there are numerous production frames appearing with thru axles and guards.

I think you are buying into the marketing crap. Disc rub is due to a warped disc or a badly installed caliper, rather than a flexy dropout. I have QR and the disc always sits bang on where it needs to be... it might be an issue if you have a disc/pad clearance of 1/10 of a millimeter... in that case, that is the problem, really.

As for the stiffer front end, that is classic marketing jargon... nobody needs a stiffer front end and it's questionable whether through axle actually makes it stiffer.

I suspect most if not all drilled forks will be for cross and not road and will have an alloy steerer.

If you have the clearance for mudguards, drilling a fork is a piece of cake, especially if carbon

Cyclosis

You talking about drilling the crown and legs? Or just just the crown and then using p-clips on the tips?

Drilling carbon does make me nervous though — and would scupper a warranty I'm sure.

ugo.santalucia

Cyclosis wrote:

You talking about drilling the crown and legs? Or just just the crown and then using p-clips on the tips?

Drilling carbon does make me nervous though — and would scupper a warranty I'm sure.

I'm talking about a nice hole that goes from one side to the other. CF is in practice "posh wood"... fibres and resin, wood is cellulose fibres in lignin, same thing... drilling CF is no problem at all. Of course your warranty is gone... I wouldn't do it on an Enve worth a monkey, but I might on a Planet X 99 quid job

Cyclosis

Ok, so aside from drilling... If I used p-clips on the fork tips, is there any kind of adapter/space out there that you sit on the top of the fork crown (over the steerer) inbetween it and the headset that allows a guard to be mounted to it?

itsnotarace

Axle to crown might be a little long but you could try

https://www.lynskeyperformance.com/stor ... -fork.html

or

http://whiskyparts.co/catalog/forks also do some with thru axles and full carbon steerer

Cyclosis

itsnotarace wrote:

Axle to crown might be a little long but you could try

https://www.lynskeyperformance.com/stor ... -fork.html

or

http://whiskyparts.co/catalog/forks also do some with thru axles and full carbon steerer

The Whisky thru axle would be my first choice, although sadly it has no mudguard mounts.

Trying to figure out how I count mount a guard on there...

MichaelW

Thru axles are for suspension forks, where the upper end of the floating fork blades are not joined.
You can use a bung inside the steerer tube to mount mudguards with a vertical bolt. Some Audax forks have a braze-on inside the steerer tube for this.

itsnotarace

Cyclosis wrote:

The Whisky thru axle would be my first choice, although sadly it has no mudguard mounts.

The Whiskey No7 QR version does have mudguard mounts

maddog 2

http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/products/forks/cross/cxd

mr_evil

A carbon specialist should be able to add eyelets if you can't find a fork you like with them already. I had that done on a fork myself.

ugo.santalucia wrote:

I'm talking about a nice hole that goes from one side to the other. CF is in practice "posh wood"... fibres and resin, wood is cellulose fibres in lignin, same thing... drilling CF is no problem at all. Of course your warranty is gone... I wouldn't do it on an Enve worth a monkey, but I might on a Planet X 99 quid job

Not a good idea.

• Drilling a hole in carbon will break the continuity of the fibres the hole goes through, reducing the overall strength proportionally.
• The hole will form a stress riser.
• It's all too easy to cause delamination (and probably on the inside where you can't see what damage you've caused).

Unless the fork is overbuilt, that could be enough to make it unsafe.

Cyclosis

itsnotarace wrote:

Cyclosis wrote:

The Whisky thru axle would be my first choice, although sadly it has no mudguard mounts.

The Whiskey No7 QR version does have mudguard mounts

Aye, but the No. 7 QR Disc is only available as a cross fork, not road. I don't need 51mm tyre clearance. *Chunky!*