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I'm not certain it'll help, then I'm not sure that even with a long bolt that it will sit very well behind the fork, it's hardly a flat surface.
To be honest, I snapped a picture and gave up, it can wait for another day and wanted to check the net before going all rage on it. The bending approach seems to be popular.
spinnnout-
Haha, fair enough. You should only have to do it once, if that helps?
To get that thing attached behind the crown, you could try one of these Sheldon's problem solver nut things.
That's assuming the hole in the crown is one for a caliper brake bolt, rather than just a little hole for a regular bolt?
TurtleRecall
Are you sure it wouldn't rub anyway if you have the mudguard eyelet at the back of the fork crown?
My kinesis has similar mounting points on inside of fork legs and I had to bend the metal stays a lot so they were straight by the time they hit the mounting points on the guards. If they're just straight surely they're pulling the guard at a weird angle?
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