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I wouldn't be so hasty to dismiss the idea. See my post here:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/183036/?offset=4675#12086291
Tester is right re affecting the angles, trail and BB height, but as you can see I did some measuring of angles with two different forks. I got the angles to be a good bit slacker than On One's website with a P2 and then with a road fork, not too far off a normal road bike. So in my opinion using a road fork with normal offset isn't going to make the handling funky by screwing up the trail. The main problem is that the BB height will be lower so you'll have to be careful with crank length especially if you run it fixed. I measured the BB about 10mm lower with a road fork, which is quite a lot to be fair. In my original post, I've got 170mm cranks but it is singlespeed. In the pic below I've swapped to 165mm and now fixed. I'm currently commuting on this and have had no problems with pedal strike, but to be fair I'm not throwing it around like a twat.
I'm not totally sold on it though, and I only did it because I thought pompy's here looked pretty awesome, but I tried it and it handled fine:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/183036/?offset=4325#comment11886979
So I wouldn't say definitely do it, but don't dismiss it out of hand either. If you know what you are getting into then you'll be fine. At the end of the day, it's your bike, so do what you like.
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Hmm... I see your point. Thanks for the swift reply. I might have to rethink my options. Oh the joys of building up bicycles.