Seek 500

The Seek 500 Carbon Fork is Ready for Heavy Duty Bikepacking

The Seek 500 is Curve’s high-performance rigid carbon suspension-corrected fork, built for the toughest bikepacking adventures. This class-leading fork changes the game for load-carrying capability on a carbon fork. With our improved VGM mounting points you can safely and reliably load up 8 kg on each fork leg (16 kg in total), allowing you to carry more than ever on your next off-road adventure.

Game-changing Load Carrying Capability

With Curve’s VGM technology, we’re saying goodbye to the less reliable rivnut fork mounts for good. Our CNC-machined mounts, pierce the fork leg completely and once bonded in place they are supported in all directions. Rough trails or desert corrugations cannot wiggle our mounts loose and we’ve done the lab testing to prove it.

Harsh lab testing has demonstrated that 8 kg can be mounted confidently to three fork mounts on each side. That’s an incredible 16 kg in total; a number that’s unmatched for a carbon fork leg mounting as far as we’re aware. This means you can be more creative in how you pack on your adventures. Riders with smaller frames with less carrying capacity in the central frame triangle can load up their forks, making a wider range of adventures possible.

The Perfect Bikepacking Upgrade for your Hardtail MTB

With a 500 mm axle-crown measurement, the suspension-corrected Seek 500 is designed to replace a 120 mm suspension fork. While it is a perfect match for the Curve UpRock, the Seek 500 is a solid bikepacking fork upgrade choice for your existing MTB. When it comes to load carrying, the Seek 500 fork is the most capable carbon option on the market, and it has been tested to survive serious off-road adventures.

With two offset choices, 44 or 52 mm using a CNC aluminium flip-chip, the Seek 500 will work with a range of MTB geometries.

Seek 500 Fork Specifications

• Carbon construction
• Matte black finish with white outline decals
• Weight: 740 g
• Steerer length: 350 mm
• Axle-to-crown: 500 mm
• Offset: 44 or 52 mm using a CNC aluminium flip-chip
• Tyre clearance: 29 x 3.0" max
• 1 1/8" - 1 1/2" tapered steerer
• Mounts: 8 x M5 mounts (4 per side) using VGM technology
• 8 kg load limit (across 3 mounting points) on each side - 16 kg total
• Crown hole for rack/lights
• Suspension corrected. Can replace a 120 mm suspension fork subject to the usual product use and geometry checks
• 15 x 110 mm (boost) axle spacing. Can be reduced to 100 mm (non-boost) axle spacing with the deboosterator kit supplied with the fork
• 180 mm post-mount disc brake
• External hose and cable routing

What's Included?

• Seek 500 carbon fork
• 65 mm long steerer expander plug
• 15 x 110 mm front axle
• 5 x single cable guides and bolts (for brake hose and dynamo external routing)
• Post-mount brake adapter and bolts
• Deboosterator pads and bolts. These parts allow the use of a non-boost (15 x 100 mm) wheel
• Offset adjustment flip-chips (44-52 mm)
• Post-mount offset adapter spacers