Which fork for a Cervelo Carbon Soloist

i'd definitely try the Wolf first to see how it goes, then work from there.

I'm pretty fussy about forks, and I like the stiffness or flex to suit the frame. Frame stiffness is affected by forks more than people realize, and putting a super-light carbon fork on that bike could 'squishy' up the ride. 🙂

If you don't like the ride of the frame with the Wolf, you could then try other options based on whether you want the bike stiffer or more comfortable.

A couple of times I've gone and bought sexy, super-light forks, just coz I thought it was a good idea at the time, but they made the bikes too flexy.
My 2 best bikes have my cheapest forks on them because I wanted more lateral rigidity off the saddle. I took the felxy 1" Columbus Muscle off my steel Cervelo and put on a heavier, generic fork with an alu steerer, marketed under the name "Roselli"; and I took the flexy Easton EC70 off my alu BMC and put on an old Columbus Link fork (alu steerer), which is super stiff.

BUT.....I have 2 other alu frames -- a local custum and a Cinelli Proxima -- which are both a little stiff, so I put slightly softer forks on them: a full-carbon Mizuno and a full-carbon Specialized Fact .

smokey26_02 said:

Am going to be purchasing the cervelo carbon soloist in the next two weeks but would like to know opinions on which fork to get for it.

I currently have a ritchey wcs carbon fork (ritcheylogic.comRoadForks WCSCarbon.htmlOpen ↗) on my bike which I can pass over to the new cervelo but I think the fork is too skinny and it wont look good. I have also though about the easton ec90slx (eastonbike.comfork ec90 SLX '05.htmlOpen ↗)
in straight not curved.

Another option will be to get the true temper gs30 fork (truetemper.comgs30.aspOpen ↗)

I can always leave the stock fork which will be the Wolf CL and not the SL version because am buying the ultegra kit.

What say you?

+1 for 531 Aussie's comments. Believe the fork has more to do with ride and handling than the frame. I don't like flexy either. Around here, solid high speed descending and roadholding are a lot more important than searching for a "soft" ride...whatever that is.

Reynolds Ouzo Pro seems to have top rep around here both for performance and strength. Frame builder advised this one for my stiff 58 cm AL/CF frame, and I've never regretted buying it.

If you want a fork in keeping with the soloist, why not the EC90 Aero. It matches the frames properties, colour (assuming it is red/black) but i'm not too sure about stiffness.