Ti forks...what is the true demand?

[Benandemu]

I'm sure many of us have heard of KOCMO in Germany, and I find it surprising that nobody has used them if they really wanted a custom Titanium fork.

I had conversations with them a while back, and they are prepared to make anything I desired, and in any finish. The cost was always under £250. I eventually found some second hand for £150 on ebay, and they made their way on a mate's Parkpre. They weighed 560g from memory!

So, they are readily available, but people need to be serious and pay up front first.

 

[Caramba Kid]

A P2 ti type would be great

+10

At $400

Yeah that'd do me too

 

[scant]

I'm sure many of us have heard of KOCMO in Germany, and I find it surprising that nobody has used them if they really wanted a custom Titanium fork.

I had conversations with them a while back, and they are prepared to make anything I desired, and in any finish. The cost was always under £250. I eventually found some second hand for £150 on ebay, and they made their way on a mate's Parkpre. They weighed 560g from memory!

So, they are readily available, but people need to be serious and pay up front first.

they look okay, not amazing...
http://www.kocmo.de/en/products/?visit= ... &id=100007
I'd prefer a more standard diameter leg like the P2 or accutrax

 

[Benandemu]

But the point is, they do anything you want. But it costs a little more!
They transform my mate's Parkpre.
My God, how the exchange rate has crashed since I last looked!
Also, the ones in the link are slightly different from the ones I had, Mine were much more slender and lighter too.

 

[messiah]

they look okay, not amazing...
http://www.kocmo.de/en/products/?visit= ... &id=100007
I'd prefer a more standard diameter leg like the P2 or accutrax

From a quick look round that site a question pops into my head... are the items made in Germany or is this a design shop where the parts are sourced from China?

The welds on the frame pictures do not look Merlin standard and some of the finishing looks a bit iffy making me think China, but I would love to be proved wrong.

Skide also makes Ti forks - but again I'm not sure if it's made in france or bought in.

http://www.skydecomp.fr/

Note - Made in China (or ???) does not bother me as long as I am sure the item has been built correctly and is up to the task. I would be very careful buying any forks because I break stuff and the thought of breaking another pair of forks is scary enough without having to think about whether they will fail because I don't know enough about them - buy what your willing to trust your life in and not what is super light, shiney or cheap.

 

[Benandemu]

They assured me that all parts are custom made in Germany.
Those pictures do not do them justice.
Next time i'm at my mate's house, I'll take some close ups. They really are good.

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

Yeh a pair of Accutrax type Ti forks would be cool Rody.

I'd buy a set.

 

[messiah]

They assured me that all parts are custom made in Germany.
Those pictures do not do them justice.
Next time i'm at my mate's house, I'll take some close ups. They really are good.

Cool.

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

Had a pair of these:

On the Fat Ti.

These things juddered all over the place. Unnerving to say the least.

Look cool but scary.


:shock:

 

[Anthony]

Rody is far too nice to say so, but this thread must have seemed a complete failure as far as he was concerned. The price people were prepared to pay for a ti fork was about what he charges for a steel one. And I guess he'd need to charge around double for ti to make it pay. And that was before the economic crisis and the fall in the value of Sterling.

I should have thought that the advantages of ti over steel for a fork were in any case quite minor and nowhere near sufficient to warrant the kind of prices that they cost.