Good day fine folks,

We just arrived in Chile and finally got our bikes back that we lost in Ukraine when the conflict started. Unfortunately, a year in the hands of the Ukrainian military, a year of storage, and over a year in transit was not kind to them and wonderful folks who packed the bikes for us on that side didn't put a brace on the front fork of my wife's first gen Marin 4 corners and the fork got squashed in transit.

After much difficulty I was able to get a local Chilean dealer and Marin head office to play nice and allow me to order a fork without providing a purchase receipt (which was destroyed along with most of our other belongings in Ukraine), however, the new fork will only be shipped from Indonesia in July for delivery probably around Nov/Dec. This means we'll miss out on cycling this season.

I would like to ask your advice on alternative 3rd party fork replacements that I could get earlier. We are close enough to the USA that we can order from there and have someone bring it over to us.

Many thanks!

I doubt anyone is going to know what a first generation 4 Corners looks like. The current one has a thru axle and flat mount, like this fork:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/31652287039...Bk9SR7L0goy3ZQ

But you might have a different axle and mount:
https://www.somafab.com/archives/pro...-for-wolverine

All City, Velo Orange, Soma, Surly are all companies that sell this kind of stuff and have good reputations. What we can't guess is your fork's axle to crown measure or rake. It is probably a straight 1 1/8" steerer, and many forks that have the right mountings will likely work okay.

Here are the Marin archives. https://www.marinbikes.com/bikes/archive If you can find your bike, it gives a little info about your forks angles but not all you'll need to know and if you find your bike, post up the link so the members can have a look. Also have you tried contacting Marin directly for the fork dimensions info?

We need to know the wheel size, axle-to-crown length, brake type, hub type, headset type and size, steerer length. Also rake (you might not get much choice) and intended tyre width (for possible clearance issues).