Carbon Fork Steerer

I'm about to take delivery of a Precursa that comes with a Alpina Carbon Fork.

There is a bit too much Steerer.

First off, will it be carbon or alloy?

If its Carbon, whats the deal with getting it shortened....?

Cheers for any advice

Hack saw meet steerer.

Use a cutting guide. Then file/sand/smooth down the edges.

and that cool if its carbon?

It's an alloy steerer with the pre cursa.

And what multi grooves says, cutting guide essential!

fair doos, always use guide.

just didn't know what to do with carbon.

cheers for the advice guys

I've got a spare Alpina fork (prob same as yours but taken from a custom made carbon Dolan frame). It has 25.6cm of metal steerer left and a star nut fitted

Its in good condition (has only been used on track) although it has some tyre rub on inside of fork and a a few flakes of black paint have chipped off over where the brake fixing would have been if it had been drilled.

Yours for £30 collection only. Let me know if you want it. Its just taking up space here.

cheers for the offer, but will simply trim this as required. as I say, my only concern was if it was carbon.

Dremel!

No worries....

By the way, you're welcome to borrow the fork if you wanted a frame of reference for steerer length. Only worth it if you're going for 25cm or thereabouts though.

cheers SH, if I run into any difficulty when the f+f arrive, I may need to get in touch.

But worked with alloy and steel before, so hopefully should have everything I need.

A pipe cutter is the easiets way of trimming an alloy steerer.

Stonehedge is your fork 1" or 1 1/8?

A pipe cutter is the easiets way of trimming an alloy steerer.

this
about £5 off ebay, just make sure it's the right size, lots of them on there are slightly too small.

Cutting guide? Pft, it doesn't need to be perfectly level as there should be a gap between the top cap and the top of the steerer anyway.