TOTAL EXONERATION
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paging @kluge_fredd
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Wow. I didn’t know he set up Focus.
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Sort of kluged it together, you could say.
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my favorite musician is john kluge mellencamp
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I’d like to replace the fork on my marino with a carbon fork. The bike was built around a 430mm fork and I can’t find a fork in this length that isn’t a shit load of money and would very much like to go for like a $150ish tandell/eBay fork but those are all 395 at the longest.
If I were to use an angleset headset to steepen the ht a few degrees, would this then raise my bottom bracket a bit and make up for the fork Axel to crown drop?
I am also open to other suggestions, including ones along the lines of “run a 9” bb height and go fuck yourself.”
What’s the purpose of a carbon fork
He wants us to think he’s cool
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I installed rivnuts crooked as fuck in the stock fork and I’m reminded of the pain of my failure every time I look at it.
And the whole bike is heavy as fuck and this might make it feel like not a poop bike.
Perhaps I’m being unreasonable and need to accept that it will always be poop bike.
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Lol Matt Damon with a Santa hat. This place is terrible.
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You can tap the bolt into rivnuts to straighten them and get them out
forget this bike–you know what you have to do 
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I have a straight steerer full carbon QR disc fork in this lengthway that is superlight and supple, was originally a Ritchey design for 26" MTB XC weenie bikes that I got as a later open mold item
it is completely zit-free, the only holes are the disc tab
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If pubes passes I might be into this thing
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If this is the 26" disc fork abandonment thread, I’m looking for something that’s 430-440, 9/8, QR, disc, with an uncut steerer tube.
In return, I will reveal that Kona sells a very nice TA 430mm fork: Search Results fork | KONA PARTS
If you can go 440mm Carver imports a bondomatic carbon fork in various steerers and dropouts: Bikeman: Carver Bikes Carbon MTB Fork XC 440, Straight 15 x 100
@BicyclePears
From my olde selling stuff post.
$60 Toseek chinacarbon full carpet fiber rigid carbon fork, Q/R. 1-1/8" straight 300mm steerer. 420mm A-C. 380mm axle center to underside of crown. 72mm wide between the legs. Stainless steel dropout faces. Post mount disc brake. Thru-hole at fork crown.
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i would need a thru axle fork because the wheels i would be using are 100/142.
but really im not sure if i like the frame enough to buy a bunch of components to build up a mediocre bike.
i do not care for this dither chat. it makes me say my bad ideas out loud and realize that what i want isnt what i want.
will probably just buy a kona topstone.
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I have two bikes. The heavy bike has 2x & fenders the light bike has 1x. If you were to put some smaller, more roadie, tires on on of the bikes would it be the lighter one, or the heavier one with road gears that I ride more and could get away with 32s on?
That’s not enough bikes Emory
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