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If you have a road bike, you'll know that you can’t do without a carbon fiber fork, nowadays. Ultra-light, they absorb vibrations way better than any other material. Wound Up were already sure of this back in 1995, when, for the first time in the world, they managed to produce a road fork under the one pound mark, with a carbon steerer tube as the icing on the cake.
Wound Up has never been a cottage industry, as Slingshot, for example. A division of Advanced Composites, Wound Up has always built its forks in the same factory where aerospace and military defense applications are produced as well. Cutting-edge carbon weaving machines are not a problem for the company.
The first real endorsement of the new forks was when Merlin Metalworks, the benchmark in frame quality, immediately chose the Wound Up lineup as OEM for their titanium framesets. Rob Vandermark didn’t change his mind, continuing the partnership even after his divorce from Merlin, when he founded the the ultra-exclusive Seven Cycles. A partnership which wasn't limited to the fork choice. try to guess who was the builder of the top-end Seven road frame's seat tube and rear stays.
The fork design might look retro. This is not a defect to our eyes, but techno weenies and high tech aficionados sitck up thier noses seeing that aluminium crown. First of all, this is not a money saving device. The accurately engineered structure allows the finest control on the fork’s characteristics. It is not a case that Wound Up, while retaining its vibration damping characteristics, is torsionally stiffer than anything else on the market. A true tracking fork on a different league to its competitors, as exclusive as the bikes it will grace.
