etherhuffer,

i'm with you. it is a good idea, but probably a huge undertaking.

i have a bike (with cantis) that came with a bent fork. i tried to find a decent fork that was 1" threaded (long), canti mounts, and didn't have awful looking MTB sloping. rack mounts and chrome would have been perfect...but i couldn't find it. i'm cheap, so $100 would probably have been my cutoff.