Tony, I think an old 1" threaded unicrown would be the way to go, but could be really hard to find one with such a long steerer. Prob most of the mountain bikes of the late 80s and early 90s that might serve as donors had shorter headtubes in their largest frame size than the XO-3. Probably most donor bikes would also have a slacker headtube than your XO-3, so a donor fork might make handling a bit different.
I couldn't justify having a new fork made for my RB-T, but if you had a custom fork made for your bike, it would also fit the 1993 XO-1, XO-2, XO-3 and XO-4, the 1992 XO-1 and XO-2, and the 1994 XO-3. All those bikes had 26" wheels and a 59cm frame with more or less identical geometry. All those bikes' stock forks suffer from limited (by today's standards) tire clearance and (I believe) narrow cantilever boss spacing that prevents the use of brakes designed for wider bosses, like the Tektros Riv sells, or Pauls. If you some day crack your XO-3's bottom bracket, or spot a killer deal on a different XO, you'd be able to transplant your custom fork. Check out the custom fork on this old Trek, apparently $200-$300: http://theradavist.com/2014/01/beautiful-bicycle-benedicts-trek-970-650b-shred-sled/#11 On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 10:21:16 AM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > > When the Rawland crowd all wanted Stag replacement forks I think they went > to Jeff Lyon...? I want to say 10-12 was his batch threshold and I don't > know what the actual costs ended up being. > > My only replacement fork experience was w/ Riv and my Saluki replacement. > Ended up being a newly built to spec Waterford fork that took quite a while > and I want to say grew to $375 shipped by the end... That's not the > right ballpark for my XO-3 to be sure. > > Michael - I've been poking around locally and on ebay at used chomoly > canti forks, the unicrown classic ones are definitely in abundance and > would get the job done. > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 12:30 AM Conway Bennett <captaincon...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Maybe reach out to norther cycles? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/XzUkZ8LS6sM/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
