Enve Composites tucked a pair of Easter eggs amongst the treasure trove of titanium bikes at the Moots booth at this year’s North American Handmade Bicycle Show: a prototype carbon road disc fork with clearance for big tyres, and a new carbon fibre seatpost, both of which we anticipate could be available for sale later this year.
Enve’s new fork looks to be catering specifically to the burgeoning crop of all-road bikes hitting the market with a 382mm axle-to-crown length that splits the difference almost perfectly between the current Road Disc (367mm) and Cross Disc (395mm) models. Official details on the new fork are scant as it’s still in the development phase but based on the available dimensions, we expect it to fit tyres perhaps as wide as 38mm wide and tip the scales at around 350g.
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The new Enve fork (and matching fender!) are gorgeous
Enve has apparently embraced the upcoming, lighter-weight 12mm thru-axle standard for disc-equipped road bikes with gracefully tapered fork legs that finish in compact and tidy dropouts. While some sort of quick-release skewer option is likely, the fork at NAHBS was fitted with a clean, flush-fit unit. The post-mount brake tabs are sized for 140-160mm rotors.
Just as with its rigid carbon mountain bike fork, Enve has developed a fender for this new dirt road fork – in carbon fibre of course. It’s neatly executed from a visual standpoint but also clever in design. Down below, two U-shaped ends snap into shallow channels at the ends of the fork tips. Similarly, two ‘dots’ up top snap into small dimples on the inner sides of the fork blades, just below the crown. There’s no hardware to fasten or remove, and no tools are required – and it feels impressively stable, too.
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