I made a mistake a while back and had some blackbird forks bought for 175 from ebley who I consulted for parts for a custom bike which is ongoing build. This goes back a few yrs. They came with new stanchions to build up so basically were/are as-new. Anyway I have dumbly now realised that these forks anyway really arent at all well suited for a custom project. ( in fact I have kind of known this was probably going to be a problem, but had little cause to do anything about it). In fact they are butt ugly. Now that I finally have a reliable and sound custom builder called Twizzle whose got the parts into a semblance of how it would look etc has really brought it home.....the other builders before that were fuckheads and spent 3 years creating £500 worth of scrap metal yolks and sweet f-all otherwise. I am not sure what options I have except speak nicely to Ebley - which I have banged an email off to initiate, OR... Ebay em then get another set (note the yolks are build so the circumference or what-have-you must be pretty close I guess?).... OR some hairbrained idea I had that mabe its possible to have two legs of the same side, and maybe get a different set of calipers that might match the mounting lugs on BOTH sides (not like the dual braking crap that is there at present). There might be good reasons why this is a no-brainer though. Stupid predicament to be in, and my fault for opting so early for the wrong items without realling specing it properly. But regardless its a current problem that needs fixing somehow. I suppose compared to the other parts its NOT that expensive. But the forks + brakes did cost a bit so I'm keen to get at least a fair amount of what I put into em, if I only have to go out and get another set. I am not into going half-arsed into finishing it now.....and its seems compromising on leaving them would be exactly that. Any and I mean absolutely any ideas what I should think about doing? Cheers.
