[email protected] (bfd) wrote in message news:<
[email protected]>...
>
[email protected] (Andy M-S) wrote in message
> news:<
[email protected]>...
> >
[email protected] (art) wrote in message
> > news:<
[email protected]>... Further, there's the issue of hardware.
> > You probably have a 1" threaded steerer. You could replace your headset with threadless, in
> > which case you could replace your alloy fork with a CF fork with either 1" carbon or 1" alloy
> > steerer. But 1" carbon steerers are fragile and noodly, and you don't have much weight loss if
> > you go with an alloy steerer.
> >
> I agree in part with your statement that going from an aluminum fork to a alloy steerer carbon
> fork probably won't result in a substantial, if any, loss of weight. However, I don't understand
> why you claim that 1" carbon steerer forks are "fragile and noodly"? What proof do you have of
> this? Or are you buying into the mfrs claims that 1 and 1/8" is "stronger and safer" and thus
> everybody should go to this "new standard". There are literally thousands, if not tens of
> thousands, of riders on the road today with 1" carbon steerer forks and you never hear of them as
> being "fragile and noodly". In fact I doubt very few of these riders can tell the difference in
> stiffness. Further, the only reason mfrs want you to believe 1 and 1/8" is "stronger and safer" is
> because if they standardize all forks, both road and mtn, to 1 and 1/8", it cost them less the
> manufacture. THAT is the reason for this change in standard, not because the carbon steerer tube
> forks are "fragile and noodly"....
I've no direct experience, but a number of people whom I trust and who are not in a position to sell
me a fork have told this of their experience. FWIW, both of my own bikes have 1" setups, threaded,
so I'm neither buying nor selling anything.