Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
What brand and style are your hubs? Some brands of wheels are convertible from QR to TA with a change of end caps, which would allow you to choose the fork presently offered. If you have a straight steerer fork and the new one is tapered you would need a new lower headset cup that's going to raise the front end a little. A new gravel fork might be a little longer too since people have wanted more tire clearance.
But I think if I were trying to keep this bike in service I'd go for a decauleur type bag instead of trying to install low riders
They are Sram 900s. Just spoke to the Spork (fork) staff and they are excellent to work with. So if I can only stay with QR I'd need to change the headset lower bearing to be straight. It is a tapered at present. They suggested that the 48mm offset would work well (and if I had the thru axles either the 45 of 50 (Currently they are 43).
I'm tending to agree with you on the decauleur style bag as well.