Has anyone put together a list of available disc brake road forks? Or have one they would strongly recommend? Below is what I have to date. Should have linked an image for each. Maybe I'll go back and do that.



Winwood Carbon Cross
Carbon/aluminum
Canti and disc
45mm rake
682g
$250








Winwood Dualist Carbon Cross Disc Fork
carbon/alloy
canti and disc
45mm rake
44mm tire clearance
640g
$275

Wound Up Team X Cross Fork
carbon/aluminum
disc specific
43mm rake
545g
$425



Vicious cycles Road disc
True temper
40mm rake
$275


https://www.webcyclery.com/image.php?productid=16710
Vicious Cycles Cyclocross disk
true temper
45mm rake
820g
$275


https://www.webcyclery.com/image.php?productid=16805
Dimension Disc Specific Cyclocross
unk. steel
disc specific
45mm rake
1050g
$60

Kona Project 2 Cross Disk
CrMo
disc specific
? rake
1088g
$70

REDLINE Carbon Cross Fork Disc
carbon/alloy
disc specific
45mm rake
680g
$170

Nashbar Carbon Cyclo-Cross Fork
carbon/alloy
disc/canti
45mm rake
722g
$120

Nashbar Steel 700c Trekking/Cyclocross Fork
CrMo
disc/canti
45mm rake
1332g
$40

The Kona Project 2 rake is 40mm I think. It has fender eyelets and a drilled crown.

It will be awhile before I'll get to ride this project but I'll try to keep y'all posted on how it works out.

Co-Motion makes a steel disk fork for 700c wheels. I believe it is sold as a tandem fork, but I have one on my Americano touring bike.

The nashbar and winwood CF forks are the same, made by https://www.evo.com.tw/. I have a few miles on the nashbar fork, good so far. My fork has a minor cosmetic (i hope) flaw, typical of Nashbar rebadged merchandise, but it saved me over 100 bucks. Aprebic assembles the removable Al brake posts with red loctite, so its nearly impossible to remove them without boogering up the flats.

The nashbar steel forks are simply qbp/dimension/surly forks, all made in same taiwanese factory. The cheapest fork choice, some of these are really heavy (1400g). Watch out for the quality - they made so many with the bosses in wrong spot that they had low/no inventory for many months last year, and nashbar sells a lot of this messed-up stuff. I have read comments of several Surly LHT owners that had to return a frame because the rear brake bosses were f'd up.

Pace Cycles makes fine (pretty, strong, lightweight) CF forks that work for mtb/rd, depending on your A-C distance requirements. I hardly ever see them cheaper than this

https://aebike.com/page.cfm?PageID=30...and=558&type=T

I have the dimenson fork. All I can tell you about it, given that I've had it built for about 3 weeks is that it rides fine and I crashed it and it is still in one, undented peice.

Thanks JeffS, for this thread. I've recently been thinking about converting my front wheel to disc brakes. Well, when I have to replace the front wheel. I was looking for something in steel, CF is just way too expensive. I came across the Dimension fork (nice to know it's working for someone), but that was it. Now I a a few more options.

I've been using one I bought from Airborne a few years back. They are now out of buisness but the fork is great (beefy) for a commuter rig. I think Flyte uses it on their cyclo-cross bike but I'm not too sure.

I wish I had as many to choose from then as you do now. This thread is very useful to anyone building up a road bike with discs.

If you need a suspension corrected rigid fork...

Surly Karate Monkey
or

Niner

I have one of those, also. It is on an Airborne Carpe Diem cyclocross frame. My understanding when I bought the bike in late '03 was that the fork was manufactured for Airborne by Winwood. It certainly appears to be identical to one of the Winwood forks.

I like the forks that don't taper, like the ones on the Kona Sutra and the Trek Portland. I think that disc fork legs need to be stiff all the way up, because of the way the disc caliper loads only one leg...


also, notice how the dropouts on the "niner" are kind of forward facing. I think that's good - less chance of ejection, right?