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Originally Posted by EB
I can’t see any good reason for a tapered steerer on a steel fork. Given the properties of the material, just seems like it will make the fork unnecessarily stiff and heavy.
Even the reasons for doing it with carbon forks on road bikes are pretty tenuous but that’s a separate discussion.
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In my opinion, steel disc brake forks should be heavy, I refuse to live on the edge. But as far as tapered head tubes and carbon forks on steel bikes, sometimes I do things for amusement, that should be understood on a forum where N+1 is the rule. I like the way tapered headtubes look, no accounting for taste.
As far as tapered carbon forks on a steel bike, there are far better choices of forks with tapered steerers. Sometimes you have to compromise because of the state of the market. It's backwards, I know. But putting a tapered head tube on a steel frame adds almost no weight nowadays and has no other compromises. Granted, it does tend to make a carbon fork the only choice that makes sense.