Wolverine Owners Club

https://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bike/cgr1-carbon-fork

there is also the genesis fork which is less bling, but much cheaper and has a crown light mount and internal dyno routing.
Offset - 50mm, axle to crown - 399mm - 12mm TA

Interesting option thanks, less tire clearance though and my front wheel is 15x100. You can actually find the Ritchey for less than £350.

That Ritchey fork looks good, been also looking at carbon forks. So plugged in the numbers here: https://bikegeo.muha.cc/
0.53° change in head and seat tube angles. 3.9mm lower bottom bracket.
Just enough to be noticeable I guess?

Edit: wrong calculations, your wheelbase may be different due to sliding dropouts, and I'm on the lugged fork which is 400mm.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/340026/#comment14955121

somehow ended up with a wolverine fork and no wolverine frame so need this gone

Thanks, I get more or less the same results with a bit longer wheelbase and the 403mm fork.

New bike day - got to finally build it for the end of the lockdown in France.
It is the road setup, the touring/allroad setup will have a custom wheelset, coming during the summer

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Sour Bikes is selling an interesting fork as well... https://sour.bike/en/shop/parts/forks/286/carbon-fork-purple-haze?c=165
No mounting options, bit cheaper.

If I'm not mistaken, that's a Dedacciai fork. Same as was on the pinnacle arkose and others

Other options I'm looking at that have
a straight steerer,
at least 42mm tyre clearance (my 42mm Resolute's are nearly 45mm on 23mm IW rims so heck knows),
12mm TA,
and mudguard mounts:
Whisky no.9. 395mm A-C, 45mm rake, 450g, £529.99 (ouch)
Fyxation Sparta. 400mm A-C, 45mm rake, 747g (hmmm), £255

I used a toseek ebay carbon 26" mtb fork on my surly for months, it weighed nothing, cost around £60 and I didn't die.
It had bags of room, this is it with 27.5x2, also had 29x2 in there fine:

You might find some useful links in here too:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/329305/

you could take a gamble on a Hylix

Betting the two you listed are made in similar chinese factories anyway

cool, haven't seen that thread, possibly more options then

if splitting hairs then than Hylix doesn't have mudguard mounts at the dropouts, and mouning mid fork is kinda ugly. maybe there are adaptors.

generally I'm on the fence about the whole 'buy from China direct, probably similar factory anyway' thing. yes people don't seem to be dying in scores using their products (because only a small fraction do use them compared to mass market?), but on the other hand buying from established brands supports these small(ish) companies and the innovation they bring to the sport? (don't they have engineers who work on carbon layup for example?)
Anyway, don't want to derail this thread, we can take it somewhere else if that space exists. Happy to have a discussion, as I've said I'm on the fence.

but on the other hand buying from established brands supports these small(ish) companies and the innovation they bring to the sport? (don't they have engineers who work on carbon layup for example?)

Depends. Specialized will employ engineers to design their carbon stuff which will get made to spec in the far east but a lot of other stuff that "small(ish) companies" are selling is open mould so then you're not getting anything extra over buying direct other than a lighter wallet. (and easier warranty perhaps)

got ya. I was thinking the other day about how cycling industry could be more open source, publish in-depth product info, etc.

I've been riding a Fyxation Sparta for over a year now and I think It's worth every penny. Used it on and off road naked and with bottles or everything cages while bike packing.

Nice day out today

Tan walls look ace.

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They sure do.
Am I correct assuming you swapped standard QR dropouts to (IRD) thru axle ones? More importantly - flat mount rear caliper?

Here's the nds shot.

Dropouts are paragon machine works. Fork is the unicrown one. Calipers are Apex1.

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My Wolverine in a touring bike set-up. It's a panzer but can climb alpine passes!

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Nice! Here is mine in a similar setup.

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I bought the Wolverine frameset @Eamesy was selling and it should be arriving this week.

Eventual plan will be to build a Rohloff/belt drive tourer capable of more off-road than my Tour de Fer with 35s, once I can bring myself to drop that much money on all that entails.

Until then I will probably switch everything over from the TdF as it is. Been thinking about converting to 1x while it's apart (currently running 3x9 Deore with hydros)

Tempted to get the frame powdercoated too but that can probably wait until a later day.

Looking forward to joining the club

In the market for a 60cm wolverine if anyone is thinking of selling up...

Long shot but does anyone have a 62cm Wolverine v3.0 in red that they'd consider trading for a black equivalent? Can't decide if I can be bothered getting it powdercoated so thought this might be an easier option.