Originally Posted by
noodle soup
You won't find many buyers of custom frames that want one of those. When spending $3-5k on a custom frame, why gamble on an unknown fork?
You never said anything about custom. I think the market is too small to interest Ritchey enough to make the wide selection of tapers and rakes needed. And Easton must have felt the same way, enough to just exit the market. Most steel and Ti frames can generally be accommodated with straight, no taper steerers. The big brand guys make their own forks as do the no names. If you need a replacement, you might as well just go back to the source of the whole frame. It is just the custom carbon market left, that's pretty small, and Enve has that. The world is spinning properly on its axis.