[Todd Richards]

I have a carbon fork made by Wound-Up with a 43mm rake with CANTI posts on my 700 roadbike. I had Dean do the custom ti frame and love it. Its gemoetry is a true roadbike, just with extra clearence all-around for 34c tires 'cause there is a lot of crappy dirt roads up here in Maine.

I am having problems with the fork. Wound-Up mounted the canti posts just 1 or 2 mm too low, so the Paul canti brakes (and all others I've tried) hit the rim just a bit too low. the issu isn't too bad when I use 20mm wide Open Pro rims, but gets worse when I ride my 'race' wheels- American Classic 420 rims that are only 19mm wide.

I've looked high and low and can't find any other 700 canti fork in a 43mm rake, and am afraid of shelling out the $ to try a 45mm rake. Will I REALLY notice the difference in the rake of a 45mm vs 43mm?

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[swc7916]

These brakes might have the adjustability that you need:

http://www.rodbikes.com/articles/graphics/bigsqueeze2.gif

See them at www.rodcycle.com (http://www.rodcycle.com). Click on the "Tandem Brakes" link on the left.

[Six jours]

You are very unlikely to notice a 2mm change in rake, and even if you do, you will adapt to it within the first ten minutes of riding.

[Nessism]

Fork length differences are also something to consider. Forks vary from 265mm (wound up) to 274mm for a Ozuo Pro (regular road forks) - which raises the front end, or lowers it, as the case may be, which changes the head angle by about 1/2 degree for each cm of fork length difference. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/forklengths.htm