Originally Posted by
ryanwood
What fork did you put on your Cross Check? I've been thinking about a front rack for some summer touring.
The fork is a Cannondale Slice of my fiancées Optimo. The canti boss broke on the surly fork last week. Just snapped when braking, but thats a different story. Its okay, but is designed around the C'dale frame, so its quite "bulky" at the HT and I gained about 1.5 cm A-C, but thats no biggie for a temp thing. But will do till I get the surly fork replaced. The front rack uses the fender eyelets and crown brake hole. It is a modded blackburn rack. I cut it down at the front, removed the alum deck, and removed the "deck support" at the back. Then I flopped it, making the back (part normally near the saddle) and made a washer/spacer to bring the legs away from the legs at the eyelets.