Hacks / Bodges

English definition of rationale [noun]
1 : an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena
2 : an underlying reason : BASIS

Ah yea the force on the wrong part of the forks. Semi-instant death.

Clocked this corker in Barcelona, from what I can tell there is a shim on the inside of the post as well and they have jammed the weight down over the collar to hold it all in place.

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thats brilliant or shit

^Could be worse

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Touché

Get to fuck you ferrous piece of shit

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ha thats one way to do it

What's happening here...

Hydraulic seatpost removal by FLT?

Genius

ha thats one way to do it

Better than trying to twist it loose:

Amazing

Excellent use of resources

From current projects: @seager

Could have done with this the other day!

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Hacksers and bodgers, any ideas what to do here? I can't get the wald strut vertical enough to meet with the basket in the correct place due to the bulge in the fork.

Would spacers to push each strut outbound a few mm be safe?

I've found some suitably chunky washers, they help a bit, but to space enough I'm gonna need a longer qr, I'm guessing that signals that I'm getting to danger territory?

Could use a rear qr? I wouldn’t think it’d be dangerous. Mine isn’t a well informed opinion though.

Yeah I was wondering that too

File the strut down a bit.

File the end of your fork off completely, will be lighter too.

Well, it's on. I did think about filing the struts, but there's the larger hole higher up which i'd be filing near to, leaving not much metal to actually support the basket.

Chinese fork, rear skewer, shit spacers for a wald basket, definitely in the right thread

Ha, even the fork is saying 'eek'

That'll be reet. Chop the excess skewer down though, so you don't puncture your leg when parking/moving the bike etc.

Would it be instant death to put the strut on the inside of the fork? There doesn't appear to be the same lip there? (I have no idea whether this is a bad idea or not)

Edit: probably not - you'd have to turn the strut around.