Rigid riders, "upgrading" from 9mm to Thru Axle?

jimvreeland said:
You already bought the Enve fork didn't you?
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CLOSE, but not yet. If I had already bought it, I would've come here in a panic and naming the thread something like "I just bought an ENVE fork to replace my other carbon fork...Help me justify this purchase to my SO" and would've received a hundred valid reasons why the ENVE would've been better than the Chisel fork.

Given that I haven't seen any advice about burning my current fork or the bike and more advice about riding it into the ground and replacing later when stuff breaks tells me that maybe it's not worth the purchase...Either that, or its reverse psychology and I should burn the fork and get the ENVE.
 
I've had the experience of going from the QR to the TA version of the same exact fork (Sarma carbon) mounted on the same bike. Very little difference in my experience, but I weigh 150lbs, so I'm not a big flexer of forks. I'll even throw in a few downsides to consider. I stripped out the threads in the dropout and had to replace the fork. Also, I know a few people who have lost their TA skewers when they took the wheel off to put their bikes on or in their cars.
 
Maybe it's because I'm 150 lbs, but I've never had issues with rigid fork flex. I converted from a Niner steel fork to the Niner carbon fork precisely to get more flex (i.e. compliance). That fork was great - felt the same as the steel fork at high speed but more compliance at low speed and super light. Shortly afterwards just about everything changed to thru-axle and larger diameter lower headsets. Now have a bunch of "obsolete" parts sitting around that worked just fine.
 
SSmtbr said:
CLOSE, but not yet. If I had already bought it, I would've come here in a panic and naming the thread something like "I just bought an ENVE fork to replace my other carbon fork...Help me justify this purchase to my SO" and would've received a hundred valid reasons why the ENVE would've been better than the Chisel fork.

Given that I haven't seen any advice about burning my current fork or the bike and more advice about riding it into the ground and replacing later when stuff breaks tells me that maybe it's not worth the purchase...Either that, or its reverse psychology and I should burn the fork and get the ENVE.
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Your current fork sucks ass. Niner is garbage, 9mm is for sissies. Buy the Enve fork and then light your current fork on fire. Even when your current POS frame snaps in half you'll have a sweet Enve fork for your new bike.

(did that help?) (buy the fork)
 
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