Originally Posted by
Pars
Yeah, I had considered knurling or hitting it with a punch, but 0.4mm seemed like a bit of a gap. Still pissed at the machine shop
I was planning on doing Dairyland Dare this year, and speed of over 45mph might be anticipated, so wanted it good for that, though I have never had any problems with shimmy or anything over the years.
If you're going to depend on that fork so heavily, I'd suggest taking it off and shipping it with the desired crown race to someone like Tom Kellogg and have him build up the surface and then machine it to the correct dimension and the correct centered position. Then you can focus on training on the bike. These other techniques all run a risk of a misaligned fork. If I'm looking at descending the Alps at speed, I only want to do it on a well-aligned frame.