Possibly interested in your old forks. Your technique is ghetto fabulous but I already went crazy with the hacksaw last night and chopped down the bars and may have made them too narrow. Generally when I get out the hacksaw it's a bad scene.

However I may take you up on the straight blade MTB fork. Are any of them 1"? Otherwise I may pop up to Broadway sometime to see what trashy old 1" straight blades they have sitting around. Of course I haven't actually taken this out for a real ride yet, just in front of the house, so maybe I'll like the huge rake. And part of me is perversely in love with the idea of a MTB shaped stayer.