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[Closed] Using a crud guard on a full sus frame (seat up/down solution at last)

racing_ralph · 2010-01-08T18:05:14Z

A few months ago i was musing about sorting a bracket to mount a crud guard on a full sus as close to the wheel as possible but with the ability to move the seat up and down. As it stood mine was 210mm up the seatpost and very useless! The travel is 140mm so i wanted the guard 150mm above the tyre, if i did that then i could not put the seatpost down on long rocky peak downhills - GRRRRR I contemplated many solutions including designing anew bracket, until someone mentioned mounting it on a gravity dropper. Then the idea blossomed!! I purchased a 27.2 - 31.8mm seatpost shim and a 31.8mm qr (total cost £7) This is what i came up with: [b]Seat up[/b] [img[b]Seat down[/b] [imgUndo 2 QRs and drop seat post, when at the bottom of the hill, seat back up and the crudguard is still as close to the wheel as possible - static at 150mm form the tyre tread! WINNER!

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genuine lol 🙂

Posted : 12/01/2010 7:33 pm

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