Kona Track T W O, what to do. (warning, this aint pretty)

[Spankyfart]

Do you see the irony in letting a good P2 go to waste in order to give life to an arguably worse fork?

I had the same thought about the P2 legs, and one is not as cool as the other. So there, that's why it's a solid idea!

 

[Spanky22b]

Do you see the irony in letting a good P2 go to waste in order to give life to an arguably worse fork?

Yes but it's a Track Two

 

[raidan73]

Even if they were the right diameter, and suitable for clamping into the crown, they would be too short

 

[August Bicycles]

Those fork legs are so simple, it would be easy enough to make a replacement pair using the original dropouts and brake posts and some fresh 4130 tubing that would bolt into that crown.

 

[Spanky22b]

Even if they were the right diameter, and suitable for clamping into the crown, they would be too short

The bike might lean to one side a bit then but i could live with that, it's a sacrifice to pay to save the Track Two's
I've been watching Paul Brodies channel he's always cutting tubes and putting inserts in them, you could cut them and do that

 

[Spankyfart]

Emailed my local not so local engineering wizard.
The fork legs are 1" flat (but round)

 

[FluffyChicken]

Emailed my local not so local engineering wizard.
The fork legs are 1" flat (but round)

with a 1.1mm-0.7mm wall

(Ishiwata tubing if it matters)


PS I think these are the 1990 version before the update for the 1991 version.

 

[Spankyfart]

I think it says 89 on the steerer.
I'd have to look later.

 

[27motorhead]

100% save these!

At it's crudest, find an old boy with an engineers lathe and make an internal sleeve that you can wallop into place to reinforce where the bend/deformation is. Prior to that you could use Paul Brodie's trick (amongst others!) to re-shape the leg to reduce the deformation...

 

[27motorhead]