Originally Posted by
queerpunk
It's not ideal - a fork with 43mm of rake has too much rake for the Pista's steep headtube. It will result in a suboptimal amount of trail, less than ideal handling.
Steep headtubes (74deg) and low-rake forks (28-35mm) compliment each other. Raked-out forks (40-45mm) and slack headtubes (72-73) compliment each other. Mixing and matching leads to too much or too little trail.
(numbers are rough, i'm not currently working off of a trail calculator).
what is the head tube angle on the pista? i recall reading in the road forum that the caad9 has a steep head tube (iirc 74 or so) and has a rake in the lower 40s.
on my alien ive got a soma threaded fork which is 41 according to soma, the head tube is 74.5 (maybe a little less with the soma fork-more crown clearance) and it rides just fine.