Old 01-23-19, 05:00 AM
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fwiw, the wide/narrow fork crown / aerodynamics gets thrown around some but is largely speculation and doesn't seem to "trend" with the exception of forks designed specifically around a wheel. If memory serves, a lot of this talk came from something Vroomen said many, many years ago about a narrow fork being bad with a trispoke. I believe in that specific context he was talking about the wider (and poorly performing in general) Zipp 3000 trispoke though. There was also an old steel schwinn fork from the 70's that supposedly tested better than any of the (at the time current ~10-15 years ago) aero forks. That makes some sense as while that fork had a wider crown, it was also very flat bladed so minimal frontal area. MDT made a fork that was a similar design (2009 cervelo P3T's for some track team had them)

If you look at GBsquad, even the secret squirrels can't seem to nail down whether wide/narrow is better across the board. (So, just my opinion, but don't let that sway your decision)
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