So close to a catastrophic fail

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Obligatory Sheldon link on fork rake;

http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_ra-e.html#rake

Most modern forks have a rake of 43-47 mm. 50 mm is quite a lot and will increase the trail of your frame which should, if my understanding of these things is correct, make your steering a little slower than before.

I'd try it and see. You can always sell the forks on if you don't get on with them.

it's the other way.
the more rake the less trail. 74 degrees plus 50mm rake would probably give trail of somewhere around 45mm. normally around 60mm is thought to give neutral handling. so it will be a pretty fast handling bike :)

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