View Single Post
Old 01-29-06, 08:45 AM
  #5  
EGreen
Senior Member
 
EGreen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Brooklyn, NY. Made in France
Posts: 1,139
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by late
Hi,
that's a 1 1/8 inch fork, won't fit. Nashbar used to have tons
of leftover one inchers cheap, guess they're gone. You might call their tech help and see if they have one; and check their returns
section. It's a long shot but worth trying. Keep an eye on the rake,
older bikes had a lot of rake, I'd go with 43 or 45mm, but avoid 40mm.

I like bar end shifters. That's one of my favorite upgrades on an old bike, behind new wheels. Wheels nowadays are so much better than they used to be.
Thanks for pointing that out, I thought they were 1'' I'll look around. The forks you linked me to are not bad at all and will be my back up.

Everything has been upgraded on this thing, the only original thing remaining is the frame and as you can see, I'm edging towards changing that too.

I'm sure I'm the antichrist to some of the purest of the purists out there.
EGreen is offline