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Old 10-12-2011, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by kiwi_outdoors View Post
I will probbaly remove the fork brace - I suspect their benefits are mostly fictional, as from a mechanics and physics POV they do not figure at all
I stuck a front tire of a non braced bike between my feet, wiggled the handlebars and watched the front fender wander back and forth over the tire. The fork brace figures quite a bit. Put large forces on the ends of long tubes and that little axle is not enough to hold them in alignment.
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