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Here’s PDW guard mounted to the mid blade eyelet on my Curve for which the fork is very similar to the Bombtrack one (I haven’t got round to fitting guards on my bike with the Bombtrack fork yet). Not such an extreme angle and could be ever better if I'd used the lower boss but the mudguard stay was too short.

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Nice bike! A Kevin?

Thanks for taking time to show me :-)

So… after having had a beautiful pair of GB guards in the basement for two years I was finally going to go through the trouble of adding mud guard mounts to the fork blades.

What do I find if not a very symmetrical crack around the right fork drop out.

Any suggestions? I started sanding the paint away to get a look at the plastic.

Edit: added pic 2 after sanding. Does not look promising.

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Hmm no that doesn't look good. Is that the threaded side of the thru-axle dropout we're looking at?

That's a very round crack considering where the force is. Have you had something mounted on the end of the thru-axle?

That’s the threaded side, the drive side. The only thing mounted there was the wheel.

My guess is that there’s a metal nut glued in there. The question is if it is going to stay in there…

After considering a couple of options, our own Huls included, I put down the deposit to have a frame made to my measurements by a builder in Berlin!

Will be 1x electronic, so probably Sram, Rival or Force. Would love Shimano but wires.

I am to deicide like right now weather I want a carbon fork or a steel segmented or unicrown. Seeing as my last plastic fork was what instigated this it seems like steel would be the smart move. This also means it can be powder coated. I am a bit clueless right now. Techy me wants carbon, utilitarian me wants steel. Like to go fast with a light bike me wants carbon. As to ride quality etc i don’t know whats what.

Will be some sort of rando/gravel much like my last bike. My aim is to do more ultras so comfort is of the essence. 40mm slicks and fenders, 50mm knobbies kind of vibes.

I really don’t get why people lay out custom frame money (custom fork money is even more as fork parts are considerably more expensive than frame parts) then be like, “That cheapest possible finish that they put on garden gates, that has no anti corrosive properties at all, that’s what I want”?!

Yes, we will see about wet paint or powder.

Cerakote also an option? There is a guy specialising in bikes doing it in Germany : https://www.b-schicht.de. They did the powder coating job on my Hulsroy x AWOL and I recently got a quote from them for Cerakote on another frame and cost was in line with wet paint.

Curious who is building the frame for you?

Cerakote could be an option. I will put it up for discussion. @SoYaap Vetra is the builder.

drust ??
edit: aah I shoul've read further as you said its a vetra

I have contacted a paint shop for a wet paint quote. Well see where this goes.

In fork news I resurrected a four year old mail thread and it seems to have made me deicide what fork to go with. Cant say what right now, but more on this later!