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[Tim]

Has anyone made forks?
I scored a redline MTB which had suspension forks, I pulled them to bits and ended up with an alloy steerer and the top part of forks with no legs.  The holes for the fork legs are 1 inch outside diameter and have high tensile hex head bolts to hold the forks in and seem pretty light.  What I am wondering is if I can find the chromoly or perhaps stainless in the right outside diameter, do the tubes for forks need to be thicker than that used in the frame.  I can find frame info easily enough, just not if forks need to be heavier?
anyone have any thoughts?
Cheers Tim

[COASTY]

Tim, Bottema skatepark forks are 0.065 wall thickness and are Cro-moly. Thats 1.651 mm in case your wondering.
I wouldn't use SS as it's too brittle for forks. Alloy forks are good for toddlers (ie Hutch Lawsuit forks) so I wouldn't use anything but cro mo or regular steel. Most low end forks bitd were made of regular steel.

[Tim]

Thanks Coasty, I know what to look for now.  Hope it all turns out nice, making a recycled bike hehe.

Cheers Tim