Carbon forks and bar harness

[welshwhit]

I'm building up a bike and want to put rigid carbon (or similar) forks on it.

Looking at the on one site I found these, http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/FOOOSCF4709 ... arbon-fork but am unsure how well they will hold up to attaching a Wildcat Lion harness.

Any one used forks similar to these for bikepacking or should I be looking more along the lines of these? http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/FOMK35CF/mk ... n-mtb-fork

Thanks

Drew

[ScotRoutes]

Not really answering your question I guess, but I attach my Revelate Harness round the Head Tube not the forks, so the forks are sort of irrelevant.

[johnnystorm]

I've just fitted a set of the Monos to my lurcher that I got from FLV. They have some marks on the crown so he might have used them with a harness. On a purely weight weenie note the monos are about 600gms and the 3 piece ones are claimed weight of over 800gms.

[fatbikephil]

Because I favour ultra short stems (35mm) I found that the harness ends up rubbing on the head tube. So I dug out an ortleib light bar that bolts onto the hole in the fork crown (you get them with ortleib bar bags) and spaces the lower straps out by 2". this keeps the harness of the head tube and also makes it much easier to remove - you just loosen the straps and pull them off the light bar thingy. This would avoid your straps having to go round your carbon fork (which sounds like a bad idea)



At some point I'm going to weld up a stainless steel version as this one is a plasticy piece of crap (although it has survived a lot of riding over the last 3 years)

[ianfitz]

I have a set of the first ones and have no issue with harness use. You could tape under where the straps will go. I never have

[rufus748]

I cut a short section out of an old Innertube. Slide it over the strap and the run it under the fork crown, stops rubbing and the cable slipping.

[Ian]

I would recommend taping all strap interfaces with any piece of Bikepacking luggage of any make. Helicopter tape is the most durable that I've found, and if applied well is practically invisible and last for 3 years+. You can get genuine 3M stuff in a variety of lengths off the Wildcat Gear website.

[Dave42w]

Because I favour ultra short stems (35mm) I found that the harness ends up rubbing on the head tube. So I dug out an ortleib light bar that bolts onto the hole in the fork crown (you get them with ortleib bar bags) and spaces the lower straps out by 2". this keeps the harness of the head tube and also makes it much easier to remove - you just loosen the straps and pull them off the light bar thingy. This would avoid your straps having to go round your carbon fork (which sounds like a bad idea)

Sounds like a great idea

[Dave42w]

I wonder whether one of these might be useful to put the straps through?

Supernova Multimount HSOPT Bracket

[fatbikephil]

Hmm useful although its best if the lower loops of the straps are the same width as the upper loops but I guess you could adapt that bracket to suit