Originally Posted by
Slaninar
Like I said, my experience has been the opposite. Carbon fork, alu fork, steel fork - all felt more - less the same with harder, narrower tyres, while good quality tyres, wider than 25 mm turned out to be the winning combination.
You skipped around what said about debating different terms. Dunno what else to add, 25c tires on a well designed aluminum bike definitely had a better ride for road buzz than 35c tires on an all aluminum touring bike for me. Guess it's a forum and we have different opinions.
Originally Posted by
Phil_gretz
And BTW, how many bikes have aluminum forks? I'm really surprised to hear that... I know that Vitus has one with troubles a few years (decades) back, but I'm not sure I've seen an aluminum fork on any bike. And I've handled hundreds...
I was kind of surprised to find it easy to find if you look at low end hybrid bikes. Like a Trek FX doesn't get a carbon fork until around $700.