DQ: is this style better or worse than a Crust fork and why?
better because the load doesn’t cause diving in the steering.
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Because they actually have them in stock?
I really like what raleigh is doing recently.
evidenced by my almost buying this:
https://www.raleighusa.com/redux-2
before I decided to spend that money on mountain bike stuff and front end racks for chasing the ghost.
sweet hybrid
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The Canadian website may have a pre production version. It doesn’t appear to have the rear rack mounts that allow you to flip the front rack and put it on the back. Hope they sell racks as an accessory for maximum cargo capacity.
Har har.
Raleigh had some good stuff, like a cheap 27.5+ that they couldn’t keep in stock. But then they went fully away from mountain bikes, and all in on e-bikes. Might work out for them, but I’m not in the market for a 3k e-fatbike.
Oh I like that. I don’t need it for anything at all but I like it.
Will it hold supgirls?
If so I might prodeal one
yeah i want that
I mean sure. But if your supgirl weighs less than 30kg she might be a child and you’re going to go to prison.
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lol ok I checked the product page and it says 25lb load max? I can fit more than that in my Wald 
I suspect that the product page is hideously conservative when it comes to load capacity.
Those weight limits are an insurance liability. Many big brand bikes have a 300lb Rider limit with a 10% cargo limit.
I used to ride with Cole atop my cetma on the regular.
I wonder how much they had to compromise the geometry on that Lorry to get the rack to fit both the head tube and the seat tube upside down.
Doesn’t look very low trail to my eye, way too slack of a HT. Bright side is that your handlebars don’t interfere with the load as much.
The dropouts on the lorry look cool too.
yeah the headtube is suspiciously very slack
but that fork could hide enough offset to make up for it
it has a 50/50 chance of being a usable cargo bike
You still have to lift the load to straighten the handlebars no matter where the load is attached
Cantilevering the load from the headtube actually adds to the number of affects on steering. It’s especially noticeable in low speed turns and/or in grade changes — the load is projected forward and to the opposite side from the rider. Because it’s not “in” the bike or attached to the steering you have to counterweight it instead of countersteer to accommodate.
Having the load attached to the steerer/fork is almost always better than that inverted pendulum problem, but fork-mounted loads don’t scale well to large volumes or weights.
You need low flop (lower trail) geometry for either system to work well
Based on specs on the CA site, 46mm.
I’m sure tarck will correct my ways if I didn’t do this correctly.