Chalo
100 TW
I'm returning the motobecane, so can't do that. Also, the motobecane fork may have less stiction, but 26-27mm stanchions is so weak and flexy that it's dangerous.
Folks are really sold hard on fork diameter these days, but remember there are other qualities to a tube than diameter. Wall thickness and material are just as significant or more so.
Keep in mind that the same snooty early adopter types who insist on chubby forks these days were using 25mm or 25.4mm stanchions when telescopic forks were the latest hotness. They would have pooh-poohed today's fatty forks as impossibly heavy and ugly motocross stuff.
Also, note that aluminum stanchions are considered to be the good stuff, but you need more than 35mm of aluminum tubing to have the same stiffness as a 25mm steel stanchion of otherwise identical dimensions. So today's "discriminating" fork buyers who boast thick forks for rigidity, but reject steel steer tubes and stanchions as less-than, don't really understand rigidity at all.