I just installed the Adventure Tech fork brace. Went on fairly easily, though I'm not quite sure what "finger tight" means on the clamp bolts! I guess just snugged up with a short allen wrench?
I measured the clearance between the top of the fork brace and the bottom of the brake hose coupling (ABS related) and with the front forks unloaded the space is 5.25" (133mm). I have my forks raised 12.5mm.
This looks bad if the fork travel is the specified 150mm. Even with the forks not raised the gap would still only be 145mm. I have read comments to the effect that the actual fork travel is less than advertised (which appears to be either 150mm or 160mm depending on where you read it), but I can't really load the front forks heavily enough to measure it myself.
I appreciate that it's likely to be a very rare event indeed to have full fork travel, however I'm still a bit concerned about the fork brace contacting the ABS cylinder.
Anyone have any comments? I suppose I could look at moving the ABS cylinder mount up slightly and I could certainly drop the forks back down but I'd rather not do either one, given a choice :-(
It does look like I could gain a few mm by lowering the fork brace until it just touched the fender.
I don't know what the situation is with non-ABS bikes, but perhaps there's nothing on them where the ABS cylinder is on ABS bikes?
I'm sure other ABS bike owners must have had this dilema and I'd be interested in their solution to the problem.
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