Rigid fork on aluminum frame?
 

Like it says, will an aluminum frame hold up with something like a Surly 1x1 rigid steel fork if I take it to the singletrack every once in a while? Mostly a commuter. Oh, I aint light ,(215-20).

I believe Raiyn Put that fork on his commuter, and has nothing but good things to say about it. I honestly can't see why it would be a problem, I think suspension forks put more torque on the frame than a rigid fork does.

My KHS Sport, Aluminum Frame, steel rigid fork. It came that way. You should be fine.

Yeah, my old Trek 7000 was the same. Used to be a common setup before suspension forks became common.

Do you think Aluminium frames are made of cheese or something? You honestly thought that every single Aluminium frame on the market comes with a suspension fork?

My Scott Sub 10 comes as standard with an aluminium frame and a rigid aluminium fork

Uh, No.
The frame is only two or three years old, and as far as I know, no engineer sat around running extra calculations to see how the head tube would hold up if someone took a $250 off the shelf diamondback and decided to slap on a solid steel fork and hit some single track.
Thats why I decided to ask.

I mean what is the worst that can happen, some guy flames you for asking a question in a forum? I can live with that.

Can you defend this statement?

I don't know. It just seems like there is more strain on the headtube when a suspension fork is in place. I kind of noticed that as suspension forks became more and more popular some years ago, the head tube sections of bikes became gussetted more and more, I figured this was because suspension forks are succeptable to a bit of twisting and things, and so they put more strain ont he headtube.

...Umm, you'll be fine.