nichupte

what up guys. so right now I'm in the process of building up a pake track frame, and i pretty much only need a fork and headset to complete it. so the obvious question is of course what do you think would be a good fork to throw on this guy. But the more important question is: what determines if your bike is able to barspin, one of my friends said that it was the rake of the fork but I didn't know if it were true. If it is true, is there a standard rake of fork to buy if you want to be able to do barspins? My current bike doesn't spin, it seems to be just a centimeter or two away from proper clearance and i really want to be able to barspin (not to sound like a hipster *****) on my new bike. Thanks so much for any help you can give me

miahmiah

The head angle also determines if you can barspin. If it is too steep then your 700c wheels won't spin even if the rake is neutral. I would like to know if there is a way to configure the Pake frame for 700c barspins too, haven't seen this in person - generally speaking though a very low rake will be best. I have seen a bunch of Kilo TT frames that can spin though, if that helps you compare geometry.

jussik

Dude, you just totally copy-pasted what I said the other thread some time ago. Please do try to come up with something original to say.

miahmiah

Why would you mess with a mountain wheel and not a 650c track or road wheel?

jussik

the point in that other thread was that it's the cheapest way get a bar spinnable bike.

jdms mvp

get a Brooklyn machine works fork and barspin a 700c.

or get a near 0 rake rigid fork

jdms mvp

nichupte

these bmw forks look ill, but seem to rather difficult to come across. does anybody know a good place to cop?

delorean

fork that costs more than the whole rest of the bike: fail

helloamerican

because 650c on the front is the same thing as those dudes in highschool with ricer cars so low they can't go over speedbumps