Equipment recommendation

Voidcore has just put the original steamroller fork back onto his polo bike, says ti is much better suited than any of the others

I just put the steamroller fork on my pompino. Its truly awesome, for all the geometry reasons above. Shorter a-c than the pompino fork has steepened the head angle, and I lost somewhere around 15-20mm trail along the way.

Mark and I worked out that a 380 a-c fork with 30mm rake would be pretty close to making the pompino front end match the Bruiser geometry.

Tsluggish handling (which in my head is more trail at the moment) trail is a bad thing, forks with lots of rake felt sluggish, just saying.

Yep. More trail=sluggish. But trail is defined by the head tube angle as well as the fork rake. Using more rake is a way to offset a slacker head angle (which is common for MTB geometry), so if thats how your frame/fork combo was designed, that slacker head angle is also responsible for the sluggish steering in some situations.