Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
The early glued Trek aluminum bikes, e.g. Trek 2000, 1400, 1200, 1000, came with glued together aluminum forks. Not very pretty (horseshoe shaped fork crown), but they worked just fine for a lot of miles.
I have a '92 Trek 1420 that has the bonded aluminum frame and fork. I put about 20,000 miles on it and after well over 25,000 miles it's still in fine shape ridden routinely by my son. I wouldn't choose aluminum as an ideal fork material but, designed and built properly, it can be very durable.