That's pretty fast,..
Although i think the price is a bit steep,...
I guess i will choose to get my Judy XC painted in matching colours and then in time buy a rigid fork,..
I just ordered a fork from Christopher and think $350 is pretty reasonable, if you're actually planning on riding the bike a bit.
Look around a little before you make a decision of course, but look at the forks available (not a complete list by any means):
Under $125
- Soma, Tange, IRD, Surly, etc. The mass-produced, probably a little heavy, bomb-proof cheapies.
Under $300:
- Waltworks - probably nice - bit of a backlog.
- Hunter Unicrown - very nice - six months.
- Vicious Cycles - undeniably nice riding, I'd personally have a bit of thing with a huge Vicious Cycles down the legs, but I imagine you could get it without stickers if you specified.
- Rody - I think, is under $3 bills without crazy paint (please correct me if I'm wrong Rody!). He's looking at December I think (again... Sorry if I'm mis-representing and correct away!)
I wanted a fork for this cross season and I love the segmented YO/BOI look.
The $300+ crowd is pretty deep too:
- Iglehart as noted.
- Pretty much every carbon fork (I will never, ever do that again).
- IF. Had one. Very nice. Very fast delivery. Would get one again.
- Perreira. I've never actually seen this guy's work up close but imagine it's very nice. Looks like he's dealing with a backlog.
- Hunter super forks. Awesome. I have two. Six months.
- Steve Potts. I've just ordered a Type II for my Merlin MTB. It's $500 and the turn around is a month. I'm rationalizing it thus: my good industry friends all said I needed to buy a Fox fork for something like $700. For $850 I'm buying a very nice, and extremely cool looking cross fork and THE BEST FORK EVER MADE, neither of which will ever require maintenance, neither of which will ever cause even a moment's stress and neither of which will fail to draw the kind of bike geeks I'd prefer to chat with.
I'm not knocking the now 10 plus year old if you can find them, made for racing, very expensive BOI/YO, but a brand new Type II? No contest for me.