Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,472
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From: Near St. Louis, Missouri
Bikes: Giant Defy Advanced, Breezer Doppler Team, Schwinn Twinn Tandem, Windsor Tourist, 1954 JC Higgens
I have a carbon fork on my Giant Defy Advanced and a steel fork on my Windsor Tourist. On the same patch of rough road, the Tourist is somewhat better.
BUT the Giant has 700x25 tires at 100 psi and the Windsor has 700x32s at 80 psi or less.
AND I have double-wrapped handlebar tape on the Windsor.
Therefore the Giant's CF fork must be doing something right to even be in the same ballpark.