@@TheUndeadMechanic I have a giant track mtb frame from the 90s and geometry has a lot of trail and handling is slow for my liking and commuting needs, I was thinking about cold setting the fork legs for more rake. Fork is not unicrown but segmented, would you advise against that and should I just buy a fork with more rake? I've noticed that many Giants of the 90s have low rake/high trail forks compared to competitors, for mtbing needs it makes sense but these types of bikes shine on gravel and commuting anyways
@oreocarlton3343 interesting idea. Not exactly sure how you would make sure that the bending that is done is precisely located where you need. That's not to say it's a crazy idea. it's just hard to get it right if you don't have a good fixture to hold the fork while applying force. I have to say I put a surly fork on a Marin that I set up for touring and really like the finished result. Cant remember the rake offhand but it wasnt anything too slack. Nice design, durable, lots of options with mounting. No 1" option though.
@@TheUndeadMechanic Alignment can be messed up without proper setting tools for sure. I really like how most 90s mtb handle as gravel-commuters, but in this case handling is too mtb-like, 90s Konas have the same "issue" because they first started slacking the HA while Giant went the way of low rake to slow the handling. I guess Ill look up old forks with more rake, pitty because this segmented fork on a T-rack is beautiful
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@@TheUndeadMechanic I have a giant track mtb frame from the 90s and geometry has a lot of trail and handling is slow for my liking and commuting needs, I was thinking about cold setting the fork legs for more rake. Fork is not unicrown but segmented, would you advise against that and should I just buy a fork with more rake? I've noticed that many Giants of the 90s have low rake/high trail forks compared to competitors, for mtbing needs it makes sense but these types of bikes shine on gravel and commuting anyways
@oreocarlton3343 interesting idea. Not exactly sure how you would make sure that the bending that is done is precisely located where you need. That's not to say it's a crazy idea. it's just hard to get it right if you don't have a good fixture to hold the fork while applying force. I have to say I put a surly fork on a Marin that I set up for touring and really like the finished result. Cant remember the rake offhand but it wasnt anything too slack. Nice design, durable, lots of options with mounting. No 1" option though.
@@TheUndeadMechanic Alignment can be messed up without proper setting tools for sure. I really like how most 90s mtb handle as gravel-commuters, but in this case handling is too mtb-like, 90s Konas have the same "issue" because they first started slacking the HA while Giant went the way of low rake to slow the handling. I guess Ill look up old forks with more rake, pitty because this segmented fork on a T-rack is beautiful