Emailed the info@elephantbikes first, then John directly the next day, yesterday morning. Still nothing.
Seems weird to me too.
Nooooooooooooo!!!
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deciding what to do with the parts now + what frames I should be on the lookout for
WTH. Sad day.
Also part of the NFE fork fail club. I checked mine on the regular. The crack seemed to form from the inside out. Lug lickers are on borrowed time. The unicrown forks rides better because itās a bit stiffer. The old fork deflected a lot more under braking.
Maybe itās be imagination, but my unicrown fork somehow seems to track better, but rides noticeably worse (which I attribute to increased stiffness).
I like the bike better with the new fork. Maybe thereās less vertical compliance. It might be argued that the old fork had too much compliance, especially towards the end of its life span. Glen and John provided a loaner fork while my replacement was being built. The fork failed in a controlled manner, but it happened right at the beginning of an all day ride. I donāt think a zip tie would have be enough.
what about some twine?
Can I take this opportunity to sing the praises of the H/G fork?
Because Iāve never ridden such a confidence inspiring fork. I dunno if itās the through axel or what, but man does it track well through corners! And despite the beefy looks of the thing, it doesnāt ride like a stiff brick at all. I dunno how they did it.
Holy smoke and BMX magic.
Iām buying one as soon as my paycheck comes in. Braden, hold one for me!
echoing rustyās sentiments. tracks awesome, feels maybe(?) less compliant than my soma grando fork was but with 47mm tires it seems kinda moot. iāve said before and ill say it again- pretty sure itās the all around best bike iāve ever owned. iād love to hear what someone who has been on both the elephant and the endpoint thinks
I have a feeling the my mind will be blown the first time (someday soon, praise tarck) I dive a HG into a high speed turn. Iāve got close to 15,000 in the Rawland noodlebike and that thing does NOT track well when cornering hard.
So I put too much weight in my Swift Zeitgeist and bent the Carradice Bagman mount almost all the way to the seatpost. AND one of the quick release things already died long ago, just riding along (I actually found it on the side of the road and zip-tied it in place).
I can post boring pictures later. Suffice to say, not worth the $70 I ebayāed it forā¦ Iām gonna hacksaw the racks off the mount and just use the very top to loop the Zeitgeist straps. Should be actually pretty great like that.
So you werenāt using the supports?
No. The 5 other models didnāt have them 
I assumed it wasnāt going to bear a lot of weight, but I was wrong.
that rack is extremely not my shit