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01-18-09, 06:24 PM

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Neil_B

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Originally Posted by desertdork

Thanks to everyone for clarifying this.

I shouldn't have mentioned crushed limestone. My apology to the OP for diverting this thread.

With the rough surface of the C&O, how many here would steer the OP away from choosing a carbon fork for this ride? The Historian and JimF22003 had carbon forks on their respective FX and Tricross, but I didn't note any concern stated by either.

If that's what he has on his bike, I don't see any reason he couldn't use it. That said, if I owned another hybrid without a carbon fork, I might have used it instead. The big drawback to the carbon fork, IMO, is that you can't put a front rack on it.

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