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yeah those look like post mount
most forks are 160 post mounts so that adapter would be correct
I have that adapter on my fox f120 forks to push the 160 to 180
most forks are 160 post mounts so that adapter would be correct
I have that adapter on my fox f120 forks to push the 160 to 180
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Chain and tubes turned up so put my bike together for the first time in 9 months.
Sized the chain up, largest front and smallest rear, with the rear mech set to be at almost 6 o'clock, seems to shift into all the gears OK, might ride to work tomorrow and check its all ok.
Moved the brake levers inboard of the shifters to try and teach myself some 1 finger action, how far can I go without risking damage to the bars?
Edit: Just noticed holy long front brake hose!
Chain and tubes turned up so put my bike together for the first time in 9 months.
Sized the chain up, largest front and smallest rear, with the rear mech set to be at almost 6 o'clock, seems to shift into all the gears OK, might ride to work tomorrow and check its all ok.
Moved the brake levers inboard of the shifters to try and teach myself some 1 finger action, how far can I go without risking damage to the bars?
Edit: Just noticed holy long front brake hose!
Dunno but:
So I assumed this was done for a reason? If its just because that is the round bit of the bar then its straight forward enough!
If you move the brakes in so far that you cant reach them, you risk damaging the bars (and the rest of the bike, and yourself)
Some bars have a limit marked on them to show where you can clamp things.
Never seen that and can't for the life think why clamping in one area would be worse than another, just sounds silly.
Clamp the brakes where you want mate, it won't snap your bars
Never seen that and can't for the life think why clamping in one area would be worse than another, just sounds silly.
Clamp the brakes where you want mate, it won't snap your bars
Waits for "Help! I snapped my bars!" post.
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£4.99 from superstar with free next day delivery (usually).
You might not receive them from CRC this week, there dispatching times recently have been pretty poor.
My last order took 4 days, the stuff i ordered from germany on the same day turned up a day earlier.
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Never seen that and can't for the life think why clamping in one area would be worse than another, just sounds silly.
Clamp the brakes where you want mate, it won't snap your bars
its because some bars are butted internally, and so clamping things tightly on the thinner parts can crush the bar
unless you have silly light XC bars I wouldn't worry about it though, the butted bits are waaay inboard if your bars have them
Why would moving your bars further in make it clamp on narrower/thinner part - surely that would be thicker/girthier the deeper you clamp it?
Id love to see someone tighten his brakes so hard that it crushes the bars !
Not even my flimsy "Not so Nukeproof" bar snapped no matter how stupid a line I took
(also happened to be the last time I tried to straight line a very tight corner on my local DH track.
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Why would moving your bars further in make it clamp on narrower/thinner part - surely that would be thicker/girthier the deeper you clamp it?
Id love to see someone tighten his brakes so hard that it crushes the bars !
Not even my flimsy "Not so Nukeproof" bar snapped no matter how stupid a line I took
there was an odyssey bmx stem that clamped up with wedges and 1 bolt that would ruin bars if you cranked it up too much
most butted bars are
fat - thin - fat -thin - fat
so that the ends / controls and stem clamp sections are stronger and the bars are lighter where its not needed
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like I said, I wouldn't worry about it, I doubt you would be able to do it
The bolts will round off or shear before you get them tight enough to crush a bar. How silly some of you are
You're never going to crush a bar by clamping a brake on too tight. You can, however, make a small dent/crease in it which is more likely to fail if you land something nose heavy and put a lot of weight on the bars.
I dont clamp things up that tight anyway. I have my brake levers loose enough so that if i crash on them they can move a bit rather than snap off.
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That's a good tip someone gave me post the crashed bar pic above.
Bent my brake lever in the process, so have been running my brakes slackened off since and it's worked a treat.
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You shouldn't be clamping your brake levers down tight anyway. They should be loose enough so when you crash the force applied causes the lever to move rather than snap or bend. Same applies to the stem bolts on the steerer tube, less chance of bending your bars then.
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