Originally Posted by
guygadois
I was talking my plan over with an LBS and they recommended avoiding a 700 fork as it may throw off the geometry of the bike. They recommended just using a pair of Tektro long reach brakes and that should do it.
Thoughts?
GG
Measure the axel to crown distance of your current fork and compair with the 400mm spec of the surley fork. An cyclocross fork should have more clearance for tires+mud at the crown than a road fork so hopefully the 700C cyclocross measurement will be fairly close length to the original 27" wheel road fork. If the CX fork is shorter, it will steepen your frame angles by 1 degree per 20mm difference in length. I would guess that up to a 20mm difference in fork length should have fairly minimal impact on the handeling and still ride OK.