how much does a custom steel fork cost??
A friend of ours went to the bike expo (sorry, i forget the name of it) last week.
he gave a report to our bike club and all he could talk about was the new carbon stuff.

steel is real. In 20 years, which bikes will people be buying? will our carbon ones even still be around?

I was in a prestigious bike shop a couple months ago trying to get a fork replacement. I went in wanting steel and 3 or 4 sales persons ganged up on me and talked me into getting carbon (which incidentally is really hard to put fenders on) and so I'll never know!

would steel have been better? i was told that it would be really hard on my hands. but who knows.