Thanks Djani. I’m glad you found a bike you really like!

Ha ha.. whatever kind – no arch bears any similarity to post and beam (where there are bending forces) and none of them relate in any way to a bicycle fork.

my bad…I meant Greek arch.

As I thought – you don’t know what you’re talking about

A Roman arch is the same thing as a post and beam. So never mind. Let’s just say the designers of classic road bikes had a proven design…and you don’t really realize it till that day your bike doesn’t endo.

I’m not an engineer (but am architecturally & structurally trained and have done a lot of mechanical tinkering so I have a good understanding) so I know that you sound like you know what you’re talking about but, and I could be wrong, I don’t think you really do.. What ‘exactly’ do you mean by ‘distributes weight over a greater distance’ and how does that have any effect on ride? How, in any way, does a straight fork resemble/act as a metaphor for a Roman arch? It’s more like a post in a post-and-beam structure.. You do know that a straight fork is cranked at the crown to place the axle in front of the force vector in exactly the same way as with forks such as Surly’s huh?

Never had a long downhill or a slight tailwind or slipstreamed a buddy? It’s ALWAYS worth having a higher gear than you can push on the flat.. nothing worse than spinning out especially when you’re trying to get somewhere before dark..

Think about a curved fork as a gothic arch. It distributes weight over a greater distance. A straight fork is a Roman arch. The force vector on a curved fork tends to distribute the weight behind the axle with a more linear force (hence the stay down and good tracking). But you won’t easily crank a curved fork up a hairpin climb – the straight fork maximizes force at the axle, hence the quicker handling.

How exactly does it do that?