Why you don't need suspension for enduro!.
- Thread starter Trekrules
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anachronistic me loves this bike.
the rake on that fork...... 
Would love to give this a go. Reminds me a bit of my very first mountain bike. Learned to ride the way I do on that thing... definitely didn't hold me back in those days... in fact, the precision of the steering on geo was probably an asset compared to the 1.75" travel forks of the day.
- trail?
i personally love it.
Can that fork handle drops? That fork leg angle makes me cringe .
My guess is a resounding NO.
BITD, before actual mountain bikes like in the early 70's - we had to build what we rode.
Forks like that would last me anywhere from a couple of days to maybe two weeks.
The steerer tube would bend at the bottom race.
The fork blades themselves would bend.
Did not matter material material wise, even with added "reinforcements" like material plugs in the bottom of the steerer, or brazed on gussets...
There is a reason BMX forks are the way they are.
My experience and opinion only, and it is worth just about exactly what you paid for it.
<Edit> There is one place a fork like this excels - ride quality, they are much more compliant and forgiving than a BMX style fork - that is until you get into the chunder, then they tend to wander; their tracking ability is far less than the BMX style.
There was a fork in this style that was killer, if you could get you hands on one. Ashtabula was the shit before the current BMX style.
Notice the re-enforcement at the crown.
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Stooge. kinda says it all...
Funny how we all feel comfortable riding 5 lbs of pressed together thin wall magnesium and aluminum forks then look at a chunk of steel and get all squeamish, myself included. I thankfully bent but never broke 3 of those style forks back in the days before I went to a BMX style forks.
I, too, bent the ever-living shit out of a fork like that casing a surprise ditch-jump. That was fun...
My front brake cable housing ended at a bracket below my stem. So when the fork bent the distance between the brakes and that hanger shrunk loosing all front braking at the same time. Considering the performance of cantilevered rim brakes, not a huge loss but a good indicator of when the fork was about to kill me.
British PB users love fapping to garage-built HTs. It's another symptom of staring at bikes on the internet for considerably more hours per week than actually riding bikes.
I think of it as an inversion of the Dangerholm-build phenomenon.
I think of it as an inversion of the Dangerholm-build phenomenon.
Was thinking the same thing...
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