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I haven’t tested many bars but I’ve been happy with the Map/Ahearne so far.
I’ve got one of those giant Wald baskets with some 680mm MTB bars I took off my hambiek. Seems to work pretty okay, bars are wider than the basket by a good bit. Wonder if I should try sticking my 750 bars on there with a shorter stem…
I was using the XLK city trekking bars when I had the basket on my Bridgestone. Don’t really have a good picture of it, but they worked well even with a long 130mm stem; only a bit of cable interference.
I was using the XLK city trekking bars when I had the basket on my Bridgestone. Don’t really have a good picture of it, but they worked well even with a long 130mm stem; only a bit of cable interference.[/quote]
Looking at pictures of these this is probably what I have on my commuter but with logos scraped off. Almost no forward sweep, nice long grip section, plenty wide in the middle for basket/rack/etc attachment points. Can recommend.
if you were going to buy a fat tire fop wagon would you get one with a beercan/tapered HT or a 1.125" HT?
depends on the existence of carbon forks in that fopformat
suppose 396ish
And a 60mm offset w/ built in rack that Craig Calfee can stand on?
what is the A-C of the NFE fork?
who knows about tubing selection? i have some questions.
The tubes are not the
Oh nvm
my custom is 395
I think the production model is ~385mm
dq: are there any Tarck approved disc braked carbon forks in 380?
Dunno about tarck approved, but I just talked to WoundUp about this: they have a road disc fork with either a 370 or 380 a-c, internal distance btwn legs of 50mm, 40 or 45mm rake, no TA option. They say they can do custom rake settings within reason (!!). I haven’t used this fork, but really like their basic road fork.
I’m sketching out a next road bike, and this looks as if it checks most of the boxes for me, less the thru-axle thing, but I’m not sure how important that is for road.
Honestly I don’t think thru axle for road is a big deal, you’re not dealing with the huge a-c lengths like mtn, and the for legs are one piece, rather than a bunch of thin walled tubes rubbing on each other. Just use a good qr skewer
Agreed that TA is probably not screamingly crucial for road. I’m thinking about this next bike as a more experimental project, a good bike that lets me try out some new tech - for my last road bike I deliberately chose simpler, more time-tested parts, now I want to taste the future / present / recent past.
wound up is not futuristic
pretty sure its not tarck approved either
woundup makes one of the only production disc forks that exhibits brake steer
plenty will flutter backwards under braking, but it’s rare for a fork to be so shitty that it pulls to the left
Oh, their disc fork does that? That’s a shame, it checks a lot of boxes otherwise.