Originally Posted by
Steve B.
That's a nice bike. I wanted the ES, they were out of stock so got a regular Smoothie. Nice riding bike..... Best of luck with the Soma, they make nice bikes.
Thank you, I'm enjoying it although it also causes a bit of a redundancy "problem" which is a problem I like having
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That's not the original fork. The original is a steel unicrown which has nice clearances but is quite heavy, read cheap.....I think it actually weighs more than the STRONG steel forks on my tandems. I bought that IRD Mosaic 57 which will just clear a 32mm tire. I put 30's on this bike which is enough for anything I'm going to do with it.
The one oddity with this rig is the amount of toe overlap which I have to be conscious of at very low speed. The fork has a 43mm rake which as far as I know is nothing unusual. It is what it is, the bike rides and handles nicely.