Talk to me about forks.

iPete
iPete Posts: 6,076
edited August 2016 in Road buying advice
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Looking to upgrade the current fork (670g) with something a bit lighter but I've no idea what all these new words are, 'non-integrated' and so on.

Fairly certainly I'm after 1 1/8", no tapering, bearings inside the frame and a 45 degree rake. Not sure if there are other considerations? Axle to Crown? A few have come up but not sure if they will work:

Columbus Minimal looks great but I think it's for bikes with the bearings on the outside, is this what non-integrated means?
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/columbus-minimal-road-forks/

There is a PX option but not sure how stiff this is given the frameset doesn't have a great reputation:
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FOPXPCR2/p ... -road-fork

Anything else that's sub 400g that would fit onto a CAAD8?

Comments

  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,695
    You might be in luck with the Columbus after all.

    http://www.bikeradar.com/au/gear/category/components/forks-rigid/product/review-columbus-minimal-fork-10-39774/

    That suggests it will work on any frame, not just "non-integrated"...There's a thread on Retrobike too that seems to back it up.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,695
    WHat about this?? Bargain!!

    http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/FOCOCCF/columbus-carve-carbon-fork
    Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    Integrated or not is a matter of the head tube not the fork. Your head tube is meant to take one type of headset. All you need to know is the diameter of the steerer, which in your case should be 1 and 1/8 of an inch NOT tapered.
    Fork rake is important to maintain the same ride charcteristics, but pretty much al forks have the same rake
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,348
    i had a columbus minimal, it's nice looking

    only downside i found was in high speed cornering it flexed enough to understeer a bit (i'm 77-79kg), in the end i switched to an enve 2.0 which was much stiffer but not as elegant looking
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • trek_dan
    trek_dan Posts: 1,366
    I've got the PX pro carbons on one of my bikes and they are absolutely fine. I bough a bare frameset and ended up with them mostly because they are cheap (the matching forks for the frameset were twice as expensive and twice as heavy due to the alloy crown) - such a cheap and underrated way to save weight at £70 IMO.

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