Hey Alex, thanks for reaching out about our Spork! Without knowing more about the size of frame you ride and the specifics of the geometry, it sounds like you’re on the right track. The 45mm fork will give you more of the handling characteristics you’re looking for whereas the 50mm fork would be  more stable with weight. One thing to be conscious of as you go with a lower rake fork is toe overlap when making tight turns. Your front wheel is going to get tucked in a little bit more so I would take a look at your current set up and make sure there is a little bit of clearance there.

Ekar will work quite nicely on a TD2.1 and is a solid, well crafted, and very functional groupset. It would make for a nice upgrade / refresh of the bike.

Frame weight only lists the weight of the actual frame.

Fork weight is 490g on average

Hi Maxwell. We do have demo bikes availble to book and ride. Just go to rodeo-labs.com/demos and use code GRAVELFORALL for each reservation if you’d like to take one out for the day at no cost. If you’d like to just throw a leg over one at HQ, you can very easily do that. Just shoot greg@rodeo-labs.com a note and he can make sure someone is expecting you and here to make your visit as informative as possible.

Thank you!

Stephen

Gene,

We have not fit one of those racks to our fork, but based on the installation video on the product page, it seems that the rack is extremely adaptable and adjustable to different forks, so I’m all but certain that it will fit a Spork 3.

Hi Jason,

Your motorcycles are incredible! Next level design and craftsmanship. I’ve seen them online before and it’s super cool to have a brush with one of the creators.

For TD4 you would fit a 58cm best. I’m 6’1.5″ and fit it perfectly with a 110mm stem and 44cm wide bars. For a flat bar build you might size down to a 100mm stem and be in the 740-760 width range. We could definitely build it with the wide range mullet rear, and that is probably the most popular build spec these days in terms of gearing.

Naked finish is gloss clear, but we could do a single layer Cerakote satin over the clear to knock it down a bit if desired. Our decals are over clear, not under. Decals that go under clear are typically water slider decals applied at the factory, but the decals we do here are a transfer adhesive decal, and go on top.

If you’d like to swap any more questions, feel free to shoot me a direct email at steve@rodeo-labs.com

Mike.

We are confident that TD4 and Flaanimal 5 are more than adequate for your needs, and yes could also load the bike up for things like bikepacking. We set the official weight limit low out of an extreme abundance of caution, but the real world limit is meaningfully higher.

If you load the bike up for bikepacking, one great technique to spread the weight load is to use a Tailfin system and an axle mount, that puts much of the weight of the Tailfin and cargo on the wheelset, not the frameset itself.

Thanks,

Stephen

That will work with one major caveat: The carbon sleeve through the head tube blocks internal access through the head tube down through the downtube. So there is no existing access path into the downtube from the head tube. The carbon sleeve is not structural on the back wall of the headtube, so a skilled technician (here at Rodeo) could create a hole in the sleeve to allow cables to pass through, but we wouldn’t expect customers to be competent at drilling carbon, so we wouldn’t be able to endorse doing it as a DIY. If you haven’t purchased the frame from us yet we can do that before shipping by request, or you could send the frame back here and we’re happy to do it for you.

FYI, most Flaanimals did not ship with Spork 3.2, although some have. Typically they shipped with 3.0 and 3.1. 3.2 is the only fork with integrated (hidden steer tube routing) that we’ve made.