Originally Posted by
cycle_maven
Usually there's only one choice for a threadless fork - long, maybe 300-400mm - and the installer is responsible for cutting the steerer to length. When I see numbers like 230/65 for a fork, it would be for a threaded headset, and the 65 means there's 65mm of threading at the top of a 230mm length steerer.
Unless these are used forks and have been cut to the advertised lengths. If they are threaded forks, the OP can't use them anyway.
Originally Posted by
cycle_maven
It's not rake. 65mm is too much rake for a normal bike. Rake is almost always between 40 and 50 mm.
That's typical for 700c forks for road bikes. These are for 26" (ISO 559 I trust) wheels and I further assume MTB geometry.