Boring_Username wrote:A frame with a steel unicrown fork is always going to be heavy.
That doesn’t follow at all. It’s true that many cheap and heavy forks are unicrown but there are also some decent quality ones that are no heavier than any equivalent. I’m thinking of the likes of Shand, Vicious and IRD, the last of which I have experience of. Likewise there’s plenty of forks with a lugged crown that are heavy, I’ve had a few.
I swapped my IRD cross/touring straight unicrown forks for a set of curved cast crown ones after an accident. Same tubing (Tange Prestige) same length and offset, hardly any difference in weight or anything else.