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Cannondale hive mind advice please (will also copy up in the Mechanical People thread as well, so apologies.)
So we have tyre clearance issues.
The Wolverines are nice but are now the third set of tyres I’ve brought and i need to make this work.
Question is, can I - dare I - do the compress the chain stays to make a bit more room?
Aluminium would say to me ‘nope’ and I’ll kill the frame.
The wheel is slightly out of true - and can’t be cured as the spokes have been done up to tight and started to pull on the rim. I have a spare (non-matching) wheel so I could swap it out. Which would be a shame as I like the Cannondale original.
However there would still be the danger of frame rub if anything (like mud. Grit. Stones. Dogshit) adheres to the tyre and rubs the chain stays even more. And then the frame will die anyway.
Have tried to catch this in the pictures. All I needed to do was slip the chain on and get out on this tomorrow but now I think that’s not going to be part of the plan :(
Er. Yeah. So, any ideas?
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