I searched the forums and saw a post from Doug that said the idea with the bracket is to use the hole that lets the brace piece sit as flat as possible against the fork, unless the fork dropouts interfere with the angle of the bracket.
On mine, the inner hole would be good, but the dropouts do bump into the angle of the bit with the holes:
It can't sit flat that way. So, it's more important for the dropout-bracket connection to be flat than for the brace-fork interface to be flat? If so, and I bolt the fork dropout to the second hole instead, what should I do at the brace point, where it will hit at a sharp angle? Try to find a wedge-shaped rubber thing to pad it with?
Which leads into the second question - the metal-screw-band-whatchamacalits (on the floor in the picture) meant to hold the brace to the fork seem to be far too large - when they're tightened as far as they can go, it doesn't quite put any compression on the brace-fork connection, even with the rubber pad in there. Do I need to go out and buy smaller versions of these, or just (as suggested above) pad the brace-fork connection with thicker stuff until it works? If the latter, should I just be snipping the excess metal band off to prevent it from flapping around?
-Dave
On mine, the inner hole would be good, but the dropouts do bump into the angle of the bit with the holes:
It can't sit flat that way. So, it's more important for the dropout-bracket connection to be flat than for the brace-fork interface to be flat? If so, and I bolt the fork dropout to the second hole instead, what should I do at the brace point, where it will hit at a sharp angle? Try to find a wedge-shaped rubber thing to pad it with?
Which leads into the second question - the metal-screw-band-whatchamacalits (on the floor in the picture) meant to hold the brace to the fork seem to be far too large - when they're tightened as far as they can go, it doesn't quite put any compression on the brace-fork connection, even with the rubber pad in there. Do I need to go out and buy smaller versions of these, or just (as suggested above) pad the brace-fork connection with thicker stuff until it works? If the latter, should I just be snipping the excess metal band off to prevent it from flapping around?
-Dave
