Originally Posted by
tFUnK
400mm axle-crown seems pretty typical of a suspension-corrected rigid fork, no? You might be off by a few mm but that won't affect the head angle too much. Plenty of 1 1/8" frames around on the used market - I would say the majority.
The axle-crown measurement on the Soma suspension corrected fork for 26 inch MTB's with 80 mm suspension fork travel is 440 mm. If I understand correctly, the 40 mm difference in axle-crown distance will steepen headtube angle by 4 degrees according to Crust. That's significant. Steepening the head tube angle will quicken the steering. I'm not sure you'd want that when you plan to carry significant weight on the fork mounted rack.
https://www.modernbike.com/soma-curv...-1-1-8---black