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I can haz rourke plz? :(

new forks for the TT bike today

Emails Ryan? he got a bit on his plate but I'm sure he can give you some estimation for your new touring bike Brother Tom.

I'm still very much at the umming and ahing stage, Woodrup, Feather, Ted, or Oak is my dilemma.

What exactly is tour reason behind enve fork? If looks then there are some options out there, columbus mud is one the good ones.

Road fork not CX, and its a combo of yeah its a good fork and it looks awesome

Bespoked this weekend, go and find someone who makes nice stuff within your pricerange who doesn't have an epic wait time.

what is a normal price these days? I got mine (1'') for 30€ a year or two ago and lost a 1 1/8'' pair that sold for 76€ on the 'bay recently cause the seller didn't open the auction to international bidders despite saying me would... i thought those would easily go for over 100€

Well they sometimes pop up on Marktplaats (dutch), so I sent a quick email and got these for 60 euro's including shipping costs. But I think they normally go for a bit more, I think around 100 euro's for the 1 inch version and a bit more for the 1 1/8 version.

Aparrently there were a load of failures at testing stage on the latest run of Enve... I'd be investigating something else.

I'd get a custom Triton frame.

Ti ftw :)

I'm still very much at the umming and ahing stage, Woodrup, Feather, Ted, or Oak is my dilemma.

Fair enough, the biggest advantage of the waiting time is that it helped me finalised some thing with my custom, so the final build is slightly different to how it originally started.

Originally intended for 700c with cantilevers, full rack mount and integrated shifters, which now turn into a 650B with centrepull and downtube shifter.

The main reason why I went for Oak and not other was that he's near, and being deaf it's much easier for me to drop in and talk to him with some ideas and suggestion like people used to do in the past, that and his recent work show a real ingenuity in building a very specific custom frame, the MTB he build for Nik is a pure testimonial for that.

What steal the deal for me was that after I've spoken to him, he drew up a quick geometry chart that resemblance a typical French Randonneur geometry before I start throwing Rene Herse geo chart at his face, which show that he understood exactly what I wanted.

second hand Enve forks can be found pretty regularly as 1000AA says

^ where have you found them?

Seen a few come up on american bay but nothing in the UK

thats the best advantage of being a midget :D 2nd hand forks with enough steerer left

dont be fooled by the blog game man its just a fork with a sticker :D

^ rep

Aparrently there were a load of failures at testing stage on the latest run of Enve... I'd be investigating something else.

ha, thats a first.
sources?

^^^doesn't have Enve

^has Enve

insider info

Well they sometimes pop up on Marktplaats (dutch), so I sent a quick email and got these for 60 euro's including shipping costs. But I think they normally go for a bit more, I think around 100 euro's for the 1 inch version and a bit more for the 1 1/8 version.

Yeah sounds about right (overpriced of course) but about right.
The major problem is getting hold of the 1 1/8'' ones. If you happen to see some on Marktplaats give me a heads up please!

I shamelessly want to replicate Scotts (BRP) v1 gangsta set-up (which was clearly stolen from scoble)

thats the best advantage of being a midget :D 2nd hand forks with enough steerer left

look at my post from the prev page to find out how this can be phrased a bit more polite :D

I dont have to be polite, I am a midget :D Sourcing fork was pain for me though, I wanted Disc, full carbon, CX clearances and tapered steerer under £200 (possibly new) I went with these at £189 from fatbirds

+1

Feather, Ted

How mine is looking in its current state. Quite a few bits on the 'to do' list...

^ where have you found them?

Seen a few come up on american bay but nothing in the UK

130gbp ask him to ship