Planet X kaffenback - Touring / Cross

Your right (i have just measured mine again: 370/38mm) I must have measured something wrong first time.

@megl That means the cxc short fork won't help you. It gives the same trail as the kaffenback fork (but with 12mm shorter wheelbase + 1.2 degree steeper headangle). Buy it if you like the looks.

The disc trucker fork 26" will give 6mm shorter trail. It is 376mm axle-to-crown and 45mm rake and fits max 37mm high tires

https://www.bike24.com/1.php?content=8;product=62009;menu=1000,2,208;page=3

https://www.merida.se/gaffel-cyclo-cross-4-disc-m13-6070007100767?nosto=nosto-page-product1

Gonna go with this on my pompetamine, thought about your fork ventures

@svendhöek thanks man, why the 26" instead of 28" version?

Still hoping for someone to make a light carbon disc fork with lowrider mounts and fender eyelets, though ;-)

a-to-c is 376mm instead of 390mm (basically road fork vs cx fork with 700c wheels)

(back on topic)

Cool bike :)

haha no problem, and thanks!

What's the biggest tyre you can fit into this with guards?

The frame can take 28mm with guards

That is not enough...

I had fenders on with pretty fat 30mm challange :)

The frame can take 28mm with guards

i've got 32s and guards on with still loads of space

Could I get a picture plz

@B0N0R nice! Is that Paselas? And what guards?

Yo!! Is that a v1 frame with the radical rear ?

Is that Paselas?

yup, don't buy them though, they're crap

Guards are the cheapest ones on SJS, M:part i think

v2 frame, the v1s are rim brakes

Paselas are crap? Ive done so many thousands of km on them and get maybe 2 punctures a year.

Mine has 32c with guards and some room, could maybe squeeze a 35c in too.

I've sliced open the sidewalls on 3 already and seem to get loads of P*nctures. Admittedly i ride this bike in a bit of a unsuitable way but i'm just not really a fan

Dats nice!

I want minimum 32c plus guards, disks and gears for my next commute/touring rig..

The SS charge plug is alright for what it is, but wouldn't mind disks on it, gears for when I've trained to hard and winter miles

Paselas are useless. The sidewalls are weak af. Toured 3 thousand miles on a pair and got about 3000 punctures.

Maybe im lucky then i've done well north of 10,000 km on them with minimal punctures.

Are you using gum walled ones?

Always have.

Maybe people are using too large a tyre on too narrow a rim so the side walls are coming into contact with the ground.