There was a long discussion on this topic on the 650b forum:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/650b/ymSxPDCPpKs/discussion
There's also the Lauf Grit fork, if you can stomach the looks:
http://www.laufforks.com/grit/. It gets good ride reports.
Nick
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Grant has stated, long ago if not often, that fat/fattish tires and
handlbars absorb so much bump that forks are largely irrelevant in doing
so. I know Jan believes that thin-blade, heavily raked forks do a great
deal to absorb bumps. I'd be curious to know more about this in general,
and in
Probably a stiffer disc fork would have to be longer to give the same axle
movement, to take the edge off bumps. I doubt any rigid fork can absorb the
shocks that a shock fork can. In fact, that seems self-evident.
Not a mathematician or an engineer.
Philip
Santa Rosa today, Redlands
