Hi Stasi, Congrats on the new bike! Although not a Ram fork If you know the necessary fork length/specs and the steerer length happens to be in the range of 238mm with 40mm of threads included, I have a Rivendell surplus SimpleOne fork available (238mm steerer, 384mm axle to crown, 47.5mm offset.) It fits 700c with cantilever posts and has those upper mid fork rack mounts. Never been ridden and only ever installed as a dry fit with wheel and rack but the project ultimately fell through for other reasons. I never formally listed for sale but previously offered this up in another ISO/WTT post when I was looking for other parts and had a potential buyer for a sale/trade that just never materialized. Using it is still low on the priorty list for any other potential back-up plan rebuilds so I'd be willing to sell if it fits your needs and you really prefer a Riv fork for the Ram and can't otherwise locate an original.
It's the raw steel unpainted version so you'd need to be ok with a DIY finish or maybe you'd find it worth investing in a professional repaint of frame/fork to match? My original project wasn't worth the cost of a professional repaint and fortunately I waited to rattle can it long enough to discover an issue with the intended frame so it remains unused and unfinished. They were sold by Riv for $125 before the Rosco Bubbe project came together to use up the remaining forks. I'd sell it for $100 plus shipping. Reply directly if you were at all interested. Thanks, Brian Cole Lawrenceville NJ On Friday, June 15, 2018 at 12:26:06 PM UTC-4, Stasi Chase wrote: > Hi all, > > We bought a well-loved Rambouillet from CL with a replaced fork - is it > worth it to track down an original part? (I saw one recently on eBay.) > > The bike rides fine but as a non-expert, I don't know how crucial it is to > have an original part as opposed to a replacement. > > Any thoughts/ideas you can share would be helpful. > > Thanks! > > :) > -- 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.
