12-10-2018, 01:15 PM
I have really nice older forks on my mountain bike and they are great off-road. I dunno that I'd want to ride anything nice around town in the winter, salt seems to kill things quickly for me. My experience with cheaper forks that use springs is that they tend to seize or get sloppy like you're experiencing. For a winter beater I'd check out recycle cycles for a used fork, you'll need to know how long your current fork is and what kind of headset you've got, along with wheel size. They have way more 26" forks than 700c hybrid forks but I couldn't say what current inventory is like, haven't been in a while. Buying one from r/c you can just hold the fork beside your current one to see if it will be different or not.
A good rigid fork that has some "spring" to it will likely have thinner fork blades than what you'd find on almost any production fork, most of the nicer steel forks people opine about online are either older models or newer custom ones. I have a bike from the sixties with some seriously skinny fork blades and it's a dreamy ride.
A good rigid fork that has some "spring" to it will likely have thinner fork blades than what you'd find on almost any production fork, most of the nicer steel forks people opine about online are either older models or newer custom ones. I have a bike from the sixties with some seriously skinny fork blades and it's a dreamy ride.