The Axle-crown measurement is really huge, and it’s why Slash decided to leave the band in 2007.

Yes, because finally they’d have a decent fork to put on their 90’s cross country MTBs … if only they made it in 26” wheel size

Most writers assume the reader is well educated enough to understand the terminology used in the bicycle industry … being a pedant about terms and their engineering or scientific definitions won’t change the way the majority in the business (engineers included) converses on the subject.

In the matter of suspension fork lowers, magnesium alloys are used in higher quality forks, you only see aluminium and steel alloys used for lowers in cheap forks, and both of these alloys make for a heavy fork that delivers sluggish and heavy handling. Aluminium alloys are typically used on higher quality forks for the crown, steerer and slider tubes (stanchions).

The term ‘alloy’ means exactly what the writer intended. Alloy refers to any material comprising a mixture of chemical elements, any one of which is a metal, and in the realm of bicycles this metal is in the main aluminium, with another being titanium.

Using the term ‘alloy’ to describe components and frames is correct, because if you used pure (100%) aluminium for anything load bearing ir stressed (i.e. frames or components) you’d end up breaking it due to pure aluminium’s inherent structural weaknesses, and on a bike that could spell disaster for the user.

So in other words, a cross-country mountain bike fork.