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Hi
Any suggestions for an alternative to a carbon rigid 29er fork that won’t break the bank?
I have the orange/black niner air 9 that I have bought as a singlespeed project.
I can’t seem to find a tapered, 15mm carbon fork anywhere that would suit the look and build.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Black and orange full carbon tapered steerer, 490a-c 15mm thru axle or 470a-c QR £190 https://www.carboncycles.cc/?s=0&c=103&p=1786&tb=001
Thanks chaps.
Kinesis looks nice.
You would think there would be some second hand niner ones around for these prices.
I have a Travers Prong on the front of my Solaris at the moment (and a Sektor when I want some bounce)
It's a 15mm axle fork with a carbon tapered steerer. I've done a few hundred miles on it now and I'm very pleased with it, looks nice too
The new ones are Boost, I was able to pick up a non-boost one thankfully
The Kinesis has internal cable/hose routing. Not to everyones taste.
Well spotted!
i'd add that with most carbon things, they're not all born equal, i had the original niner carbon fork which i sold and now i have a aliexpress special and the ride quality is nowhere near as refined as the Niner fork. i'd hold out for a Niner or Enve fork if you plan on doing big miles on it
edit: the kineses fork looks damn close to an aliexpress special, i guess moulds can be similar and layup varies
I think your right, I will hold out for a Niner.
I got one of these a couple of years ago, from this vendor. It's been fine - stuffed a USB endoscope camera down its innards, and it looks OK inside vs. some of the horrors that you'll see on youtube.
Looks like you can go direct now too https://icancycling.com/collections/fork/products/29er-tapered-carbon-rigid-fork-thru-axle
Yeah - I've been using that ebay fork for a couple of years. Shand now supply them on some of their bikes.
I used to have some Niner rdo a few year back and wasn’t that impressed, but put these whiskey no9 on my singlespeed pipedream skookum and I have been really impressed.
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