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Because its a steel for for touring when you need eyelets. You wouldn't notice with its loaded. The rest of the time you can use a carbon fork, and it looks fine:
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its the first unicrown flat mount thru axle fork I've seen .. if only they had sorted the HT to fork transition like Tonic
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Because its a steel for for touring when you need eyelets. You wouldn't notice with its loaded
all true - but to my subjective view, it doesn't excuse the ugly of the current fork headtube transition. Especially as they have clearly had to do something non-standard to make it work with an oversized headtube.
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And because a tapered steerer rigid steel fork is just plain daft
amey
fidbod
Alb
^ but the head tube / fork interface is so ugly
why would anyone let that off the paper and even into prototyping - let alone production