Minimal clearance - how?

Had this problem myself brought a new set crome cromoly forks off eBay that should do the job.

Wut?

New forks will not change frame's geometry. Only if you fit them backwards.

27" wheels + huge tyres

This. Or even better, this:

I'll be the 'dad' then.

As you found it in a skip, unless you're very lucky, it's made out of gas pipe and doesn't fit you properly. I'd really just get it in to a rideable state, and if you do want to spend money on it, make sure it's on parts you can transfer over on to a new frame.

I really, really, wouldn't worry about the clearence on your front fork

Wut?

New forks will not change frame's geometry. Only if you fit them backwards.

Oh it can, to a certain degrees.

It'll lower the front of the frame down making the angles steeper. Not by much though

Wut?

New forks will not change frame's geometry. Only if you fit them backwards.

Imagen it like changing out of stilettos in to plimsolls ;) your posture will change. But I was talking about the clearance between the break mount and the tyre.

I'd just use a bigger tyre.

I've got a different problem. Fitted Gatorskin tubular and it doesn't spin.
I had to use ball bearings in the dropouts - as advised by Pistoffski.

Cromoly forks from America? Can't you get em from UK or is it coz the price was cheaper?

Honestly... I just didn't look that hard, my weakness for shiny things will be the death of me.

Imagen it like changing out of stilettos in to plimsolls ;) your posture will change. But I was talking about the clearance between the break mount and the tyre.

So in other words, being a man in drag can pay off. When it comes to reducing your clearances.

I liked the mudguard idea best. Actually not a pisstake - coupled with some 35c gyres. Win.

oh shit its a troll innit.

Surely being a man in drag will increase the amount of clearance people give you.

Take a wheel off, hold it upright on the floor, wedge some toes between the spokes, put some weight on them to hold it down. Grasp the top of the wheel in line with your toes and with a straight back pull as hard as you can. After doing so for a few seconds rotate the wheel by one spoke and repeat. After two or three full rotations you should start to see a difference. I got an extra inch in diameter with mine... can be a bit harder to get tyres on and off though, I recommend getting some tyre leavers once you've done it

Joe

Stop trying to imitate though.

Genuinely awesome cyclists have minimal clearance just by riding so much and so fast that the centrifugal force of the spinning wheel expands its diameter. Most hipsters have to change their wheels every 6 months or so due to it getting stuck in the fork after passing the point of "minimal clearance".

I wear through forks faster that chains or back tyres.

I could explain, but you wouldn't understand.

Stop trying to imitate though.

Genuinely awesome cyclists have minimal clearance just by riding so much and so fast that the centrifugal force of the spinning wheel expands its diameter. Most hipsters have to change their wheels every 6 months or so due to it getting stuck in the fork after passing the point of "minimal clearance".

I haven't experienced this... Am I a bad cyclist?

If you manually have to stretch your wheels I'm afraid so. Poser.