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While this bracket is great in some ways mine has a vice-like grip on the lock and I sometimes take the skin off my knuckles removing it. Any ideas on how to free it up a bit?
WD40 loosens mine off when it gets tight - but your right when dry they are sticky as ****
al - WTF OMG? You put your lock on your bike with a bracket? I've lost all respect for you now. That is so sickeningly uncool.
just the town bike - cant all be courier cool and stick them round our waist - id never get my lock round my bike and lamp post if i did that 😉
hey, don't get me wrong, my commuter is geared, disced, racked and mudguarded (even in summer), but lock brackets is a step too far IMO 😉
It rattled around too much on the rack and I wasn't about to put it in a pannier. Still rattles a fair bit mind.
Serious answer: Do the metal bits bottom right attach to lock, which in turn clip into the plastic fibre-glass reinforced black clamp? Is it the catch which sticks? or does the whole thing just push into the jaws?
Could you drill some small holes into the sides of the jaws, which would give you more wiggle room, and an esier release? I've done that before on a clamp mechanism.
Correct - the catch doesn't stick though, the whole thing seems wedged in tight.
Interesting idea re drilling it but I'd be scared it broke, holding 1-2kg of lock in.
The metal bits fit onto the lock D, and they slot into the bracket, yes.
Be careful with those brackets - mine had ruined a decal on my bike when I took it off - they wriggle down the tube eventually.
Interesting idea re drilling it but I'd be scared it broke, holding 1-2kg of lock in.
Maybe, my scenario wasn't load bearing in the same way. I do mean tiny holes too.
So its just the wedge really ramming itself home into the union as the weight of the lock bounces around?
Reposition to horizontal fitment?
Dry lube (spray teflon, spray silicon?)
I think that's the cause as the bracket is on the DT with the lock above it. I'm struggling to find anywhere else to put it with bottle cages and pump, without getting in the way.
Leave it at work and buy a mini D for tooling round town? That's what I do with my new york, far too heavy to ride round with.
If you put the clmap on the TT (or 'cross bar 😉 ) and dangle in into the front triangle, does it foul your bottle?
Retro audax grouch handbar bottle cage?
By a replacement clamp if drilling holes in the original proves that it breaks? I'm pretty sure some flex induced by being able to twist the lock a bit will snap it out fine.