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Thanks. I posted the update about the extension of the TFT after looking at the brag board and noticing the commonality of the conversions having tons of clearance off the tire and short front tubes; playing with the length of the front tube makes the relationship between the two quite obvious...

Compressed front shock by jkallay posted Sep 9, 2015 at 6:11 PM Here's a photo. I used bar clamps to compress the shocks until the front downtube hits the wheel. That happens after about 1.75" of compression, so the shocks still have a fair bit of travel left in them beyond this point. UPDATE...

If the suspension fork on my conversion takes a good hit, the front downtube will hit the tire, bringing the front of the bike to a sudden stop (which is obviously dangerous). I've tightened up the suspension, which mitigates the problem without solving it. The options I've considered are 1) put...

Ah, they're dust caps I see that they're dust caps.

Must be just packaging I don't see them in the image in the instructions so I'll assume they're just packaging.

Please excuse the naive question, but the axle for the front-to-rear wheel conversion has a metal ring around each of the cones. What are they for? It looks to me like they're too small to replace the hub's existing seal rings.

Thanks for your responses. I Thanks for your responses. I think John is right--the right solution (in the spirit of using as much of the donor bike as possible) is to get that obstruction on the fork out of the way. I'll let you know how it works out.

More pictures and explanation Here are some pictures that should help explain the problem. The issue is the taper on the wheel side of the fork, which is the side the mounting flange of the bracket is supposed to go on. As you can see in the right-most picture, the amount of drop-out...

My donor bike has (for all intents and purposes) the pictured fork above, with a close-up of the actual build below. The issue is that theres a taper from the body to the dropouts which leaves very little flat surface for the conversion's brackets to grab. For them to be flush against the...