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I am going to get the fork cut down for my new road bike this weekend. It's not a cheap fork and I'm feeling under pressure to get the measurements perfect. Having measured everything to within an inch of it's life I'm fairly confident I'm good to go, but wanted to ask if there was a more simple way to measure this first.
Having been fitted to my old bike I know exactly where my bars need to be. Therefore can I just stand both forks up next to each other and mark the new steerer where the old is cut? The fork lengths and rakes are different on each, so the amount of steerer tube would be different once cut, but surely if the overall length from mid axle to top of cut steerer is the same on both then I should be ok?
Sorry for the long post, just don't want to mess this up.
Cheers.