Thursday, February 04, 2010

Fork part 4: done

Finished the fork this week. Realized I spent about 20 hours working on this, which is a lot, but it was worth it. I think it looks great, there are some small imperfections, but you have to be within 6 inches to see them.

Blade dimensions are: 14.2mm wide and 80mm deep.

I had been tossing this idea around in my head for a bit, but then it was confirmed as a possibility when I read this post from Mr. John Cobb.

I had been tracking fork blade width and depths to try and see what already exists and came up with this table:



I couldnt get the width of my Cervelo Chord fork down into the range of the Lotus or Time Bandit (~10mm), so I made it a little deeper. But stayed within the depth Cobb suggested. If I started with a Jetstream could get it to be 8:1 ratio!!

Anyway, enough talk, here she is: