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widest possible front fork

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  1. Hello,

    I have bought some motors having 120mm axle length - and desperately
    searching some fork which fits...

    thankx

    hyperbike.cc

    sorry for reposting - my old one diappeared

  2. g.fried said:


    I have bought some motors having 120mm axle length - and desperately
    searching some fork which fits...

    Try China.

    Yours is a common compatibility problem between Chinese-market hub
    motors and US-market bikes, which almost without exception have 100mm
    spacing on the forks.

    The cheap and simple way to cope is to bend a normal bike fork to a
    wider spacing. If the fork is of the "unicrown" type with vertically
    parallel blades, you probably won't have a clearance problem between
    the fork legs and motor housing.

    Otherwise, you could have a custom framebuilder make something for
    you, which cost at least $300 the last time I looked into it. One
    major advantage to a fully custom approach is that you can have the
    framebuilder provide thick, sturdy plate fork tips that won't be pried
    open by motor torque at the axle.

    The Surly Pugsley fork (not cheap) has 135mm spacing, but it's off
    center, with the extra 35mm all on one side. Trying to make do with
    one of those would mean having to offset the rim of your front wheel
    by 17mm, which would make the wheel much weaker and less reliable.

    Chalo

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