Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

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yoshy in reply to @Lolo
My only experience of steel -> carbon upgrade was on an old steel track frame, so the difference was night and day.

I'm intrigued to try one of these:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOSEEK-26-27-5-29-MTB-Mountain-Bike-Carbon-Fiber-Disc-Brake-Rigid-Fork-1-1-8/263742550085?hash=item3d6847f045:m:mJ1qatz3LcB0ffiJ96M7ijg

On my cross-check. Have been pondering how it would change handling.
- 25mm a-c
- 5mm rake
So I think this would give around 1.5 degree slacker headtube. This combined with the smaller rake, would be a fairly big increase in trail.
I'd guess most like a downhill-ish mtb? Stable at high speed but fairly twitchy and manouvreable at slow speed. I haven't got a clue, clearly.

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Lolo in reply to @yoshy

It's going to be perfectly rideable, but I would still look around for a 400mm a-c. There's bound to be a happy customer on the Orient Express thread for such a thing, no?

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yoshy in reply to @Lolo

There are a few unhappy searchers, but no success stories yet - I do regular browses of aliexpress and ebay
Straight steerers are seemingly gone from that world, can still be found for road/mtb but not cross/gravel, tapered rules the roost.

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