lucklust

Hi all, I usually post to the cyclocross forum, but now I have a commuter question. I have a late eighties Peugot Triathlon that I'm commuting on. It has all top of the line components (for the late eighties )
My question is this... what kind of choices do I have in the fork department? I've got her set up almost perfectly, but the fork stinks. My ride includes very steep, poorly paved uphills, 40mph+ downhills, and about 50/50 well-paved/terribly-paved flats. I don't know much about older bikes, so any help I can get would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Torrin

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MichaelW

What size tyre do you want to use. For rough-stuff I would use a 32mm touring tyre as the largest size. A fork for this would need sufficient clearance at the crown, + fender clearance. You would need cantelever brakes or long drop calipers.
There are some carbon forks, which take cantelever brakes and fender.
You could also get a steel fork made up. Most production steel forks with high clearance are quite heavy duty for touring or hybrid bikes, but a lightweight one made of Reynolds 531 is plenty strong enough.

With a tri bike, you may have a different steering geometry to a std road bike.

late

Surly makes a nice fork for about a hundred bucks.