Van Tuyl Ti Cyclocross

I'm thinking of getting this Nashbar 1" fork now until I find a 1" Wound Up Team-X

Looks kind of ok and in fact I might be interested in running a front disc

In the meanwhile, I've got a new 1 1/8 Ritchey WCS full carbon fork up for grabs.

This is the fork I had in mine. Seemed to work pretty well

do you have any pics of it built up? I'm curious about the way the fork looks in a frame and couldn't find any good pics of it

How much for ritchey fork?

I ended up paying € 200,- for it, since the eBay sale ended and I bought it through work, so I'm looking for the same amount.

Nevermind, I have managed to return the fork through work too.

Good for you. They were too expensive, was hoping you got them cheaper. :)

A colleague turned out to have a spare 1 inch cross fork and brought it to work today. Looks a lot like those Nashbar forks but without the disc mounts. It's got some scratches and stuff but I think I'll just sand and spray paint it, and then it should look just fine.

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Good one! Those Nashbar forks are just generic Taiwanese/chinese forks. I have an identical fork which has an Aprebic engraving on the steerer, they're a Taiwanese manufacturer.

Small update:

Rattlecanned the fork, removed (most of) the paint on the frame and assembled it thus far:

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Next step: sanding off the last paint, sanding the larger parts of the frame with fine grain paper.

As for the parts, I'm planning to do this for the front brake cable:

Anyone any experience with a setup like this?

Does the fork have a mount on the crown?

If so, fit fork mounted cable hanger.

Bet plenty of dentists do

From what I've read it should work fine from an engineering point of view but it causes a lot of brake chatter. Using a fork mounted cable hanger like ed suggested should solve that.

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No mount on the fork, that's why I'm considering this.
Maybe drill the fork then?

You might be better off getting this to replace the headset you currently have;

yeah do what ed says. I believe there are also aftermarket headset spacers with a mount. less slam that stem though.

how youve been bas?! liebe gruesse aus berlin!

Impossible, those only come in 1 1/8 and I'm in the 1 inch game here.

Guess those are my best option actually.

Doing good, doing lots of messenger work lately and moving to AMS soon. You got any plans on being in the homeland soon?

good. and good. and nope. im quite fine here..;) will give a shout when I do though. some bootybootyshaking at an amsterdam venue near you...;)

Why not simply remove the mechanism from the left Ergopower lever?

No spring then.

I'd probably go with mini Vs rather than drilling the stem if I were you.

If you can't have a fork mounted hanger then I would definitely go mini Vs.

If you're set on cantis then I'd drill the fork crown and use a fork mounted hanger.

Basically drilling the stem would be the last option I'd choose because of the judder.

(also that cable routing looks awfully contorted)