Absolutely not sold on spray.bike. $16 cans of paint and $8 shipping with no idea of matching.

I've got a pretty sweet steel road bike. A couple years ago I made the decision to get a carbon fork, I needed a longer steerer and couldn't aesthetically justify other cockpit options.

I have been very pleased with the ride and fit, but a carbon color fork on a nicely painted steel ride is a little fugly. The bike was built for straight legs anyway.


The fork it came with. A beauty.



As it sits except I went back to Look and put black hoods on.

I was pretty lucky that Lowe's had some industrial paint the exact color of my bike. I found a 1" straight leg fork I like. I've been having a pandemic of a good time sanding and priming it. Hopefully I'll have the final color on today so I can wet sand (2-3000 grit) tomorrow.

I've got some ideas so I won't have to learn to do a fade. It'll look good. Pics this afternoon.

For weight weenies. Steel fork, 650g, curved fork 480g, straight fork 375g.

The straight leg fork in 1" didn't seem to exist a few years ago. It does now. Such is the life of a consumer.