Originally Posted by
loser
Thanks a lot, i'm all confused now.
But what I've understand is that, it's only a choice, some people prefer steel and some prefer carbon. And no one likes aluminum. I guess I'll just have to figure out by myself by trying both to find out.
Well, IMHO here's the deal. The points about carbon are well taken. Good carbon is silky smooth
and absorbs a lot of road vibration. Carbon can also be designed to be tough--some MTB forks
are carbon. But I don't know if carbon road ot track forks are intended for the abuse of lots of rough
urban riding--they may be. Quality carbon forks are fine 99.9999 percent of the time. But
when they fail they can fail catastrophically. They don't like abuse. Good carbon forks are also
expensive. Google says that carbon mtn forks are the price of a low end but decent steel frame.
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en...-8&sa=N&tab=wf
yikes
Steel absorbs road vibration, is tougher than carbon and is less expensive. Steel is also classic.
Steel won't be as smooth as carbon. I say go for steel so you don't worry about catastrophic failures but the haters will turn into this an either or argument. . .