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the more i look at the fork the more i want a slightly straighter one, however i am planning on using this one for the foreseeable future, came to the conclusion its probably fine, its just a cheeky 0.4cm

Depending on the stack of the current stem , a Thomson x2 could save some steerer, they're only 35mm stack compared to most which are ~40

I also want dibs on this...saw photos of it online but never for sale anywhere. Mind if i ask how much it was on sale for?

Alpina's would look better but are pretty common. Classifieds had some carbon 30mm rake straight blade track forks from a brand I didnt recognise

Nice :)

Kinesis still do their bladed aero forks in 11/8th. Lots on ebay.de

rotor s3x (the one on my cx bike, previous page) has only 34mm stack. One of the lowest. There is also those mtb stems that have something like 30mm which are meant for 29ers

This must be the missing fork

put drops on the ESB. Miss riding a proper track/tarck bike and maybe this brings it a bit closer?
(maybe)

that looks much fun though

Take off cap and lower it further.

although those are £100+ stem which you could just buy new forks for

looks like 1", more than one tiger frames out there :)

Changed bars, brakes, levers, fenders and rack on my street-sleeping bastard.
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Love these bars

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looks like 1"

true.

more than one tiger frames out there :)

I had no idea they were an actual thing, thought it was just one pathzza order request.

there's steel ones out there, and even roadie ones

Sure the road one is steel ? These dropouts look fat for steel dropouts, if steel it is. But I might be wrong.

Sure the road one is steel ?

He didn't say it was

Sorry then, I misunderstood.

Cheers guys

@edscoble sorry, bit dazed right now, which part do I lower? The stem is slammed and All of the screws I tried don't reach the thread in the hole. Surely I can just go LBS and they would provide me with a nice long screw?

(I miss my hatta threaded headset and nitto jag)

Surely I can just go LBS and they would provide me with a nice long screw?

The screw is the least of your problems, any fastener shop will happily sell you an M6 socket cap screw in lengths up to at least 60mm. You need to bin the part shown and fit a lower stack bearing cover to get anywhere near a safe amount of steerer in the stem clamp. The old school assembly instruction is ≤3mm down from the top of the stem to the top of the steerer. With metal steerers, that's enough to avoid instant death but it can still lead to annoyingly frequent requirement for headset adjustment. The modern method, which is safe for all steerer materials, is ≥3mm up from the top of the stem to the top of the steerer.

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Just finished this ultra slow build for a friend after 5 years. Couldn't figure out too much about the frame, so I freestyled it with Shimano 600 parts and some design cues from the PR-6000. Saddle and bartape are according to his wish and wouldn't have been my first choice.

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New fork day

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Moar pls