Originally Posted by
unterhausen
that's why they butt stays, so the ends aren't too thick when they taper them down. I'm pretty sure that the lightweight stays and fork blades are as light as you want to go, you could always go with a carbon fork to lose a little more weight
Yeah what he said
There is light enough stuff out there
Train hard and get lean
there is a reason why you do not have .40/.35mm at the fork ends or at the rear dropout
all this stuff has been thrashed out for decades and the tube makers have been there blah blah
then the breakages occur
so the stuff is designed to work in the real world
we are not going to discover some thing that the tube makers such as Columbus are ignorant of and have over looked
My mate Joe Cosgrove has some foolish customer that wants to use .7mm 953 fork blades on a touring bike with disc brakes.
This customer is a mechanical engineer and he thinks he is f--king genius.....................................................