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Old 05-18-16 | 10:55 AM
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Bikes: A green one, "Ragleigh," or something.

Those old carbon forks can get scratched up pretty easy. If it's all black carbon, rather than painted, you can wet sand off all the scuffs and refinish with a can of clear gloss polyurethane. Make it look good as new.

A new fork would probably (but not necessarily) be a couple hundred grams lighter. I was shopping carbon cyclocross forks on the big auction site the last couple weeks and the advertised weight varies a lot. Caveat emptor.
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