500mm Axle to Crown fork

[SteelToe]

I'm sure this has been done to death, but I'm looking to "upgrade" my Judy Silver Air to a rigid.

I wouldn't mind a rigid Alu but these are difficult to find these in matching specs, so I'm looking at Ali carbon offerings.

Narrowed down to half a dozen, most have 480 CL, Judy nominal is 506 (as per Specialized specs).

The "tallest" option I found so far is FK-11, but little feedback on these or sales history. Hoping for your options on this:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32887390668.html


Apologies if this is in the wrong forum area - please move if needed.

[Square_Cookies]

I actually have one of these forks (or at least it looks the same). I bought it from elita one a few years back on sale. The quality of the fork was half decent. 

My issues where: the post mount for the brake was not compleated flat (needed to be faced), the through axle was super heavy, and the fork had somewhat limited tire clearance (2.3 if I remember).

The 480mm should be fine since the 26mm is supposed to correct for the sag of the fork.

[SteelToe]

Thanks, I've heard machining is often needed for brake mounts as well as clean up of the crown area.

As for the 480mm Axle to crown - I've measured the static sag - it's <5mm with fork air pressure set as recommended for my weight - meaning to maintain the geo I do need a 500mm fork?

If this didn't matter I'd go for:

an Alu (485mm) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32873574338.html or
OG-EVKIN FK-007 (475mm? - TBC) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001316304690

That Alu fork takes 180mm rotor without adapters too.

[jefflinde]

I have not experience with that fork but I have had f4 or 5 flyxii frames and never had an issue with them.  The brake mounts did need some work on one of my frames but I paid a shop like $60 to do it. Over all I was very happy with their products. They have been around for a while too. 

[Pedaldancer]

http://www.carbonda.com/fork/cfo-496.html

According to the short spec it has 500mm .