Re: the forks.

It depends on what you want- there are road forks and cross forks there. You will probably have to use a dual pivot road brake with the road forks, and that will limit your tire size and fenders.

The cross forks look better, allow wider tires, and fenders, but you gots to use canti/v-brakes.
I bet the cross forks are taller than the road forks, so the geometry would probably be closer to the 27" fork you had on there...

New fork + new headset+ new stem = lots of cash- $100?

And a new 700c front wheel. And new brakes.


And none of those forks are "touring" forks, so no low rider rack braze ons, although there are other options to mount these racks.