Current Projects chat and miscellany

Apart from the principle of it, those round track fork blades aren't designed to take braking forces. Steel road forks use ovalised blades for that reason but it makes the fork a bit less stiff laterally, which is why steel track forks often stick with round blades.

Meh.

My old Mercian had round forks and it was drilled. My current beater had round track forks until I switched to carbon threadless. As I recall they both worked fine from a braking POV.

As they are the original forks it seems a shame to fuck about with them from a history POV, as it's not ever going to be a "proper track bike" again. Plus the fact that you can get 1" chrome drilled forks fairly easily. But equally drilling a hole isn't the end of the world if it means you'll use it more.