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Old 04-26-10, 06:54 PM
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ZakPrell
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Originally Posted by filtersweep
One other thought--- how much of this difference in ride is in your head? I ride a Look road bike, and have three steel fixed gears--- all with lugged steel forks. I find a lugged steel fork quite nice, albeit heavy. There is no way I would say it is a "much nicer" ride. Carbon is just much lighter. In fact, I suggest that a carbon fork provides a worse ride than a steel one. I have never had massive fork flex on a steel bike, never had any form of a high speed shimmy, I could go on and on. On the other hand, $150 is a good price.
Your probably right about that. The weight savings would be nice tho. and I'm sure there is some TRUE difference in ride quality.
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