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@Sam_Doman
Messing around fitting the front mudguard tonight. I'm having to spring them ever so slightly, to make them fit the way I want with these tyres. They're the biggest tyres I can possibly run in this frame, and there's at least a quarter inch of ckeaenace alk the way round. I had to make a custom bracket for the fork crown fastening, as there's so much drop from the crown on the straggler fork. It's a bit of 316 stainless, bent up and drilled. I used small dome head bolts (m4), with big washers and nyloc nuts on the outside, to maximise tyre clearance on the inside. I akso used a thick rubber washer between the fork crown and the bracket, to provide some damping and hopefully reduce the rate at which the stainless will eventually work harden and become more likely to crack when it becomes brittle. I'm also adding an extra mounting point, tdc, above the axle. This will be integrated into the racks i'm building, and offer a lot of support, and hence rigidity to the mudguard. It also helps pull the shape into a fairer curve, to suit the slightly smaller wheel size. This is approximated by the bungee cord in the second photo.
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