eBay / Air Bike rigid aluminium fork experience?

[cmh28]

I'm looking for some rigid forks to replace the now defunct SunTour ones on a cheap MTB I use as a station commuter and runabout so don't want anything expensive.

Has anyone had any experience of rigid aluminium forks from eBay, such as Air Bike?

[gregoryoftours]

Assuming that it's a 26" wheel bike those forks are 400mm axle to crown measurement. That is not much in the way of suspension correction, so they'll probably be a fair bit shorter than your suspension fork. It will drop the front end down a bit and make it a bit quicker handling, not dangerously so but it will certainly be noticeable.

The fork looks like many sold on Ali express, so I imagine that it's a re-badged Chinese import, and the uk company looks fairly rudimentary, basically selling Chinese imported goods with a small markup. It doesn't look too bad, though I wouldn't buy their 'Shimano' products.

Buying the fork direct from their website is a bit cheaper than eBay.

[rogerzilla]

I wouldn't ride anything with an alu steerer, especially unbranded Chinese!