I am trying to decide on which forks to butcher for the 24" wheeled FWD delta.
I have 2 candidates that will take the wide balloon tyre of the 24" wheel.
One is a true 24" fork that is slim and elegant (the black one on the left) but it is fairly tapered at the bottom end; and a heavier feeling 26" fork that instead of having delicate "dropouts" has ugly pressed and folded indents into the steel tubing (Peugeot branded, but budget engineering).
Widening forks always tends to shorten them (is my experience), so maybe the longer 26" forks are the better bet?
Whichever forks I use I will still have to widen them from their current 100mm to 135mm to accept the rear wheel hub I want to drop in there.
So the pressed flattened rubbish drop-outs of the purple forks will have to go anyway and maybe it is better to butcher these and insert some 3 or 4mm plate into them after widening and re-squaring the bottom ends of the forks at 135mm. The brake bosses are immaterial as the hub is a disc-braked hub so I can chuck a cable pull disc caliper on there too.
Any thoughts/recommendations from '
Team AZ'?