In fact, I've still got a 2007 Magura Wotan 160mm single crown fork with a straight 1 1/8" steerer even though they also had the tapered steerer option at the time. It just phased out the straight 1.5" steerers, not immediately the straight 1 1/8" ones. So when fork manufacturers eventually released tapered steerers, no one was complaining. Most fork manufacturers then released longer travel single crown forks with both 1 1/8" and 1.5" straight steerers, yet at the same time frame manufacturers played it safe and made their frames compatible with the larger diameters. Manitou said you needed this to get more than 130mm travel with a single crown fork, so promptly Marzocchi introduced their z150 fork to "prove" them wrong. Actually, everyone went nuts when Manitou introduced onepointfive (1.5" straight steerer).
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