Apparently someone made an angled crown, because Eric Estlund posted this fork recently https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZIGmil...on_share_sheet


I am a mechanical engineer with a sufficient background in FEA to have an opinion about this, but I'm not going to build a fork model to test this hypothesis. I don't think crowns can contribute much to the compliance, they are a lot thicker section than fork blades. You wouldn't want dynamic FEA anyway. A bent fork will have more compliance down in the bend, but the rest of the blade will probably not bend quite as much. I had a straight bladed fork for quite a while, it didn't seem any different to me than any raked fork I ever rode. It had about 55mm of rake. I have never ridden a bike with more rake than that for very long though. Working on changing that.