Originally Posted by
loser
The bike is a 80's road conversion so it was originally made for 27'' wheels. It as a pretty good geometry since I weld track dropouts to make it tighter with 700. The top tube is going down toward the front of the bike, like 8 degrees with a 700 fork. And the head tube is something like 7 degrees And is very very short for a 54 cm bike, it is like 9-10 cm long. The old fork was an 27'' bent fork, not very good. A straight blade would fit on it and would be prefered to have the front wheel as close as possible to the frame.
If I understand the rake/trail concept correctly, if you are effectively steepening the head angle with a shorter fork that fork should have less rake.
The only threadless 1" steel straight blade fork that comes to mind is Colnago. There have been a few NOS ones posted on ebay recently. Not cheap though.
If you found a threaded fork with a long enough steerer you could also cut it below the theaded section.