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Old 05-12-17 | 08:37 AM
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You could get another fork for touring.

A friend of mine recently bought a carbon fork with the mounts for a front rack. Not sure the brand on in. The new one might be a Winwood.

Also, he has toured for several years with an older Carbon fork with rack mounts and I am not sure the brand on that one either. I looked for a label and did not see one on the older one.

If you can't find a carbon fork you like, get a steel one. You can find them for a good price.

Try to find out the fork rake and fork axle to crown race distance on your existing fork and try to match that as close as possible to the fork you buy.

Most people for touring like to have the handlebars higher than most roadies do. That is another advantage of another fork for touring, you can have a longer steerer tube on it to raise your bars for touring.

If you get a second fork, it would be best to buy a second fork crown race for it so that you can easily swap one fork for the other without worrying about that part. I have two forks for my expedition bike, in my case it is a solid steel touring fork and a suspension fork. I find it is pretty quick to swap forks, the most time is spent moving the brake unit from one fork to the other. And the next time I swap forks, I will probably sucumb and buy another brake for it to simplify that.

The attached photo is my friends bike with his older carbon fork on it, he first toured with that fork in 2014 on Pacific Coast. Photo is from Feb 2017 when we were in Florida.
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