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The fork is plenty strong enough for a disc mount already and Joe is on the case anyway.
No need to change the fork for cyclocross either as canti brakes are still the best brakes for cross riding anyway and as said, the fork can be ordered with canti mounts already.
As also already mentioned, the bike looks like it does as Joe's bikes have his own style stamped all over....the Gangsta was meant as a play bike and a bike capable of being used by messengers in the roughest cities around...shortening the fork and lengthening the headtube while still allowing for barspins and tricks and providing the stiffness the gangsta does would have made the bike look a damn sight more freaky than it does right now.
Joe has been riding track bikes a hell of a long time so he knows the hows and whys....if he wanted the forks to look like every other pair out their he would have done it....the main reason the langsters look so wrong is precisely because they have sloping top tubes with long head tubes.
Again, it comes down to personal preferance, but i've ridden mine on the 120 mile dunwich dynamo as well as in the city and it's still my favourite bike i've ever owned....and i've owned a lot of bikes!
If you like it, buy it, you won't be disappointed.
If you don't like it, don't buy it...and continue to whinge about the fork clearance and sloping top tube.
But whichever choice you make...i'll still be enjoying riding mine.
And in ten years time when mine is still going strong we can talk again about whether you think they're worth £700...:)