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Originally Posted by
unterhausen
... I think it would be really nice if someone got outside their comfort zone and spec'd a 55mm rake fork, or even a 60mm fork. But nobody is courageous enough for that, apparently.
That was one of the reasons I had my Squarebuilt frame made. I spec'd that with 6 cm fork offset (the frame geometry is copied from a 1948 Raleigh RRA). I have no complaints about the geometry of that bike.
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