Best racer's fork for straight 1.125"

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CXTony
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by CXTony

I just picked up an awesome Rock Lobster True Temper S3 road frame from a friend who is thinning his fleet. He was running an Easton EC70 fork, but I think it deserves something a little nicer. Since I plan to ride and race the bike, what fork would be the best option? I imagine the Enve, EC90, maybe 3T are the top options, but what do people recommend? I would prefer to run 25s, it needs to be a straight steerer, and I would like to make sure it is light and race-ready.
What do you guys think?

(Full build coming this winter)

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kman
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by kman

Pretty happy with my edge/enve 1.0 fork. I picked up one of the "old stock" with the edge decals and was running it on my caad9. Unfortunately my Focus uses a tapered steerer and its not worth trying to fit the edge fork.
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by sungod

about 18 months ago i switched to an enve 2.0 fork (previously columbus minimal), it was a great improvement, no more understeer so i can be much more confident when cornering hard/fast

only downside i've noticed vs. the minimal is that on poor road surface there's more road buzz, but i think that's to be expected given the big difference in stiffness

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nickf
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by nickf

Running a enve 1.0 on my caad9. Fantastic fork. Much stiffer then the cannondale premium. Plus it looks great.

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by eric

I've got an Enve 1.0 on my Cervelo R3SL. It works fine but does not match (it's flat black, the Cervelo is gloss black).
I got it as a "dark deal" for half off. It's a few grams over the stated weight.

There's a Ritchey fork that Excel Sports lists in their catalog that is light and not too expensive:
http://www.excelsports.com/main.asp?pag ... =1&minor=3

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CXTony
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by CXTony

Good to see I was on the right track with the Edge/Enve fork. I am excited to start up the build :)

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