• I keep thinking about getting a disc fork for my steel-framed fixed gear, straight 1 1/8 head tube. The only options seems to be the Condor disc fork or the aliexpress £30-40 fork.

    Has anyone got/used the aliexpress one and have they died a fiery death? Am I stupid to even consider it?

  • Haha, let me know if you go for it and I'll get one too. Note that I'm 90kg, so I reckon I'd be the first to go 😬

    I've read some auto-translated aliexpress reviews of it and I think they're saying that 160mm disc hits the inside of the fork leg...

    Out of interest, I took apart the first fake enve seatpost I bought, to fit it to a different bike with a different saddle and noticed that one of the metal wedges (the head of the bolt side) has a little crack in it, from its thinnest point inwards below the hole cut for the bolt.

    I think I overtorqued it to try to stop a clicky noise which was actually caused by saddle rather than the post. I'll take a pic when I get a mo'. Might message them, ask them to send me new hardware...

    Here's the cracked wedge:

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