A lower shade of trail
The midlifecrisismobile with the new fork properly installed. I lose the nicely chromed fork crown, but I gain a whole bucketload of clearance around the tire (thanks to the 70mm wide cyclocross fork and the mini-V brake I put on instead of a cantilever) and drop the trail from ~60mm down to ~30mm.
Now to bend, cut, drill, and braze a rack (I’m going to put a somewhat stouter rack on the mlcm and move the existing rack over to Silas’s Shiromoto so he can have an appropriately light rack for his light little bicycle) to put onto the thing, and then decide whether to keep the existing VO decaleur or to braze up a better one (I should also braze up a steel stem with a bell mount, but stem failures are one of those “but I like my teeth” failure modes.)
I like the look of the black fork. When the existing front wheel demises and I replace both rims with Archetypes I may just go crazy with black components (well, for some version of “crazy” that doesn’t involve spending any more money than what it will cost to lace up a pair of new wheels) and go for a black+red look.