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frylock

(34,825 posts) Sat Feb 4, 2012, 02:12 PM Feb 2012

great day for a pedal. where are you riding today?

I'll be taking the Trance X for a ride up Sycamore Cyn to Goodan Ranch this afternoon; about 14 miles of truck trail and single track in East San Diego County. What about you?

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great day for a pedal. where are you riding today? (Original Post) frylock Feb 2012 OP

Sadly, I'm not. Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #1

man, sorry to hear that.. frylock Feb 2012 #2

I hope so... Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #3

if you can determine the rake of your fork, you may be good to go.. frylock Feb 2012 #4

You might want to ask about it on bikeforums.net Kennah Feb 2012 #5

I'll check it out. Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #6

The parameters are the "rake" and distance from the crown to the drop outs Kolesar Feb 2012 #7

nm. ge26252se Feb 2012 #8

think I'll ride along Hula Popper Jul 2012 #9

I ride on the "Silver Comet Trail" 3 or 4 times a week Up2Late Oct 2012 #10

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

1. Sadly, I'm not.

Reply to frylock (Original post)

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 08:19 PM

Feb 2012

It's been gorgeous the last few days in Seattle, but sadly, I left my mountain bike in Tucson and my racing bike has a cracked fork I just found out. It's a Greg LeMond, the company is out of business and finding a replacement fork is apparently difficult.

I'm bummed.

frylock

(34,825 posts)

2. man, sorry to hear that..

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 5, 2012, 02:19 PM

Feb 2012

i admittedly know very little about road bikes. is an after market fork not an option?

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

3. I hope so...

Reply to frylock (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 12:07 PM

Feb 2012

I'm just going by what the bike shop is telling me, as I'm rather non-mechanical myself. How different can one fork be be from another? It's a forked up situation at the moment.

frylock

(34,825 posts)

4. if you can determine the rake of your fork, you may be good to go..

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 04:00 PM

Feb 2012

again, i'm a dirt guy, so i really can't speak to any authority on the subject, but if you can find a fork that matches the rake of your current frameset, you should be set. there's a lot of carbon aftermarket out there, and you can probably find a steel or aluminum replacement as well. best of luck!

Kennah

(14,465 posts)

5. You might want to ask about it on bikeforums.net

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 10:25 PM

Feb 2012

Folks there are great.

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

6. I'll check it out.

Reply to Kennah (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 01:10 PM

Feb 2012

Thanks for the suggestion.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

7. The parameters are the "rake" and distance from the crown to the drop outs

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 06:54 AM

Feb 2012

You will have a lot to choose from for a road bike. Carbon-fiber forks have come down in price, so if you are performance-oriented, you would probably buy carbon-fiber for light weight.

ge26252se

(50 posts)

8. nm.

Reply to frylock (Original post)

Wed Feb 22, 2012, 04:12 AM

Feb 2012

Hula Popper

(374 posts)

9. think I'll ride along

Reply to frylock (Original post)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 12:01 PM

Jul 2012

The St Croix River today. North of Stillwater, MN.

Up2Late

(17,797 posts)

10. I ride on the "Silver Comet Trail" 3 or 4 times a week

Reply to frylock (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:38 AM

Oct 2012

It's about 2 miles from my house, The Silver Comet Trail is a a 62 mile Rail/Trail that goes from just north of Atlanta to the Alabama boarder, it's a pretty nice ride.

http://www.silvercometga.com/

Also, it connects to another 33 miles of trail in Alabama, but I haven't ridden all of the Georgia part yet.

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