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Old 09-29-22 | 01:25 PM
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BTinNYC
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From: Whitestone and Rensselaerville, New York

Bikes: '23 Canyon Endurace, '87 Bottecchia Equipe Professional

Bike stability issues; different fork?

Bike: 84 Centurion Prestige, bought the frame on ebay.
Issue: On some upstate NY roads with regular waves or bumps, this bike has a front end wobble on decending that is not acceptable. My other bikes don't get this resonance, bumps yes, but not scary wobbles.
Two Pronged Solution (hope and pray 😀 ): I suspect this Tange race-bike fork could be part of the problem. The DOs are spaced at 96 mm, which isn't right, it's bent some how. I lack the skills/tools to really measure this fork, also I don't like it, at all.

I have 2 replacements try out; a Time carbon fork with the exact same geometry, and a heavy generic steel fork with 9mm more rake.

I'm trying the carbon fork first, with testing in a couple weeks.

Predictions, comments, howls of outrage?
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