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I assume it's a cost thing.
The forks are stock they buy in. The bike overall is rocking a lot of features for the price. Compromise has to come somewhere I guess. -
On a carbon fork? You aware of how much that costs to make? You also realise most carbon forks with a single leg bosses aren't a actually for racks but guards.
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The Arkose fork was to our spec to start with, a lot of companies use it now as we didn't pay tooling for it. But it was never intended to be used with a rack. Racks and carbon forks aren't a combo that I'm too comfortable with tbh. Would need proper ground up design, new testing and a compromise on added weight and stiffness.
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for all its mooted versatility (bottle bosses, rack mounts etc)... why does the arkose not have mounts on the front fork for a front rack ? seems like a weird omission, since most adventure bikes of this type tend to have them