Unpainted Carbon Forks - only acceptable with Ti now?

[baldbones]

Anyone think this look can rock with a steel or alu frame in these days of colour co-ordination?

[the bottle ride]

Yes totally.

And those who think otherwise are clearly delusional as to why it should matter.

Play on with un painted carbon fork.

[MarkC]

gosh I hope so because the fork on my mootry is naked and I wouldn't want to run afoul of proper colourway rules...

[PJN]

Yeah - my PMs have unpainted forks. I think they look fine. I guess I'm also braking some rules by having a saddle bag, frame pump and tail light on there. It also isn't in the big ring, bottles are mismatched and it doesn't have a level top tube. Fuck it - I'm not sitting at the cool kids lunch table anyhow.

[fixednwinter]

Yeah - my PMs have unpainted forks. I think they look fine. I guess I'm also braking some rules by having a saddle bag, frame pump and tail light on there. It also isn't in the big ring, bottles are mismatched and it doesn't have a level top tube. Fuck it - I'm not sitting at the cool kids lunch table anyhow.

Except for the frame pump, my PM is set up identically to yours. I'll join you at your lunch table

[Matthew J]

Anyone think this look can rock with a steel or alu frame in these days of colour co-ordination?

Unless your social circle is a bunch of middle school girls, all that matters is whether you like it.

[EmbroJames]

Few of the team bikes last year had unpainted forks. I like me a painted fork, personally, but there's something about the non-matching forks that reminds me of pro bikes from the 90's... and that's sort of cool.

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[DOOFUS]

taking issue with fork color is....

[BrandonC]

I have a matte carbon Alpha Q fork on my bike. I like it.

[david]

unpainted carbon forks are just as good as the ones with paint on them.

[c.s.]

I've paid the upcharge (which I didn't understand) to have the fork on my IF painted black on a "burnt orange" Crown Jewel, and it was a steel fork on a steel bike. Forks should be black. Carbon forks should look like carbon. Black, it's not just for carbon...

[ashwa64]

nothing is or ever will be wrong with a black fork.

[Shinomaster]

This works quite well.

[baldbones]

Yay, we got our own lunch table

"Unless your social circle is a bunch of middle school girls, all that matters is whether you like it" - a tad harsh

Maybe I wasn't clear , I DO like it
and er this kinda is my interweb social circle!

You just don't see so many nowadays even on Pegs...

Thanks all

[david]

ps - i do like the look. feels just as purposeful as unpainted stems.

[shoney]

I like carbon forks with Ti or unpainted stainless, painted otherwise for my taste. For me, the aesthetics of Pegorettis have improved drastically since they started coming with matching forks. The unpainted Ouzo Pros kinda stick out badly on a lot of the older ones I've seen.

[Matthew Strongin]

Why bother painting any of it?

[roseyscot]

how's this?
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i also have the steel fork that came with it which is painted to match

[MarkC]

Unpainted Alpha Q on wife's Luna:




Unpainted Ouzo Pro on my Tetra (red parts are all gone, that was sooooo 2003...):




Easton on a Moooooootry:



Sometimes you let the effbuilder do that voo doo that he doo and your fork comes colored:



http://jancurran.smugmug.com/Cycling...ling0407-M.jpg


Parlee I built up for my dad:




Of course the best forks are the ones on bikes that get lots ridden so.....

--Mark

[nahtnoj]

Yeah - my PMs have unpainted forks. I think they look fine. I guess I'm also braking some rules by having a saddle bag, frame pump and tail light on there. It also isn't in the big ring, bottles are mismatched and it doesn't have a level top tube. Fuck it - I'm not sitting at the cool kids lunch table anyhow.

You also have a compact bar and too many spacers above your stem. And are those clinchers?