I have thought about making my own dropouts, but there are lots of nice dropouts on offer. I have seen people make do with dropouts where they should have done something else. I try not to do that. But most front dropouts are made for a particular style of fork, and I want to build some that aren't really that style.
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Originally Posted by Nomadmax
Building the frame and throwing on an outsourced carbon fork is a big no for me.
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I never really thought about buying a fork until they started selling tapered head tubes. And now Alex Meade has head lugs for tapered headtubes, so I'm pretty sure that for me, buying a fork is inevitable. Never seen a tapered steel fork that looks right to me, and I try not to build things that don't look right.
Of course, my frames are built for an exclusive and exceptionally tasteful clientele: me. So I'm not really concerned about what the hoi polloi thinks.