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Old 03-21-13 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by tuz

Btw I thought that the idea behind tapered & raked forks was to give some amount of shock absorption. A properly designed disk fork might not have much compliance left and will gain some weight? (along with the disk hardware). Even if it's simply a long Willits mount. Something to weight against the good performance of (hydraulic?) disk brakes.
Good point about the compliance, interesting. I have a hardtail mtb with hydraulic brakes, I'd like to have a suspension adjusted rigid fork I can switch by not dicking around with the brakes other than just remounting them to the fork of choice.

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