Long Distance Competition/Ultracycling, Randonneuring and Endurance Cycling - should i get a different fork?

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newleg
02-06-09, 03:34 PM
i have a carbon fork on my bike but i need a fork that can attach panniers because im going on a 800mi tour. its a KHS flite 300 and it has the rack eyelets in the back but not the front.

should i just get a front fork with eyelets

Machka
02-06-09, 06:15 PM
1. I changed my carbon fork for a steel fork just before my 5000 km tour of Australia ... more because I didn't want to feel like I had to go out of my way to protect my fork all the time, but also because I thought I needed a front rack

2. For an 800 mi tour, you probably won't be carrying enough stuff to need a front rack ... I have never used mine.

3. You might also want to post this in the touring forum. :)
Richard Cranium
02-06-09, 07:02 PM
yeah, the carobe can be a head ache.

An engineer can figure out some goofy way to get you what you want. but I kind of like the idea of just "reverting" to a fork that allows for the luggage system - as it was designed......

You get bigger benefit from the correct or easy usage of your panniers than you do from the difference between the composition or material in you fork,

Your just tour anyway -carbon has very little benefit to you in any scenario.