FS: Wide as the Clyde fork. Glesga version of a Crust Clydesdale.

Also interested

Yeah I’m in as long as there are mounts for a guard and a dynamo light + long steerer!

Me too!

I'd still be hugely keen. Do you have specs for what you'd want a donor for to look like?

Ideal to bring a medium sized dog along!

For a donor fork you’d want something around 75-100mm longer than the stock fork.

The one I already made was 50mm longer than stock and like I say, ended up dropping the bb ever so slightly.

I got excited and a bit confused about a2c lengths and bought some forks from eBay but they were too short so have gone back. Thought I’d found some other forks that’d be suitable but seller of them has gone quiet.

I’ll keep looking and hopefully find something.

Definitely interested.

Ok, so I've received these and just wanted to give @M_V a shout out.

They're awesome. End of, they're by no means light, but far lighter than I expected. I know it might not all be the same, but honestly, they're sturdy as fuck and quality of welding is fantastic.
Massive thanks, and looking forward to building them on the Alpinestars frame.

Gunna be 100% awesome 👏

on the Alpinestars frame.

Oh shit son

I had the same idea for that frame haha. Can't wait to see the build!

Awesome, glad you are happy with them.

For anyone that's watching the thread waiting for others to become available, I searched low and high for a suitable donor fork that I could buy ata decent price and in quantity and ended up not finding anthing so I've ordered some stuff from Ceeway to try and build them from scratch so we will see how that goes.

Gimme the spec requirements? Might be able to source

Yes! Although I’ve been trying to convince a friend of mine a torch plus parts would be cheaper than importing a Clydesdale, this might throw a spanner in those plans.

Did you make any headway?

I had a dream about cargo forks last night and it had me thinking of this thread!

That reminds me, I saw a nice one on Instagram today
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ6XlgHlk75/?hl=en

Mine! :)

I have two steerers with crown race sleeves soldered on.

I have a cad drawing done and tubing in stock, it's just finding the time/motivation. Working in my workshop is a bit of a cunt-ache at the mo due to the cold but it seems warmer this week so hopefully can make some progress.

Following with lots of interest

All you need is a small leisure battery and a chinese diesel heater!

£150 - 200 and you'll be sweating.

If its your workshop, thought about insulating a bit? Can get off cuts and freebies easy on FB marketplace

The problem is it’s a garage so as much as I could insulate the walls and roof, it’s basically a 3 sided structure when I have the door open. I tend to close the door after dark as I’m not losing any light (I have rechargeable lighting) but I do lose ventilation so don’t like brazing or painting with the door down.

Hi all, did this production run ever happen? Did you keep the design the same?
@Chak have you fitted the forks to a bike? How are you getting on with them? Do they handle well?

I'm thinking of designing some cargo forks for a uni project (studying in your 40s is hard af). So I'm looking at what else is available and how I can offer something different. It may just turn into a feasibility study so may not come up with anything better. Fairly unlikely I'll ever physically make any either. Just a design/engineering exercise.

Obviously I'm going to look at the Crust forks and any similar. Feel free to suggest any I may have missed (I'll start a thread if it seems like a doable project).

Somewhat unrelated but how did you get a disc on that mag wheel @M_V? Assuming it came like that but just wondering if its a standard mag that you modded.

Rack looks great btw. Top fab work as always.

It's a rear, respaced and with a thread on adapter.

It being a rear and Something like this I think

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