seypat

After looking at the bike again, I can't shake the feeling that I've seen it before on BF. The thread definitely has sock potential.

79pmooney

Or - have a framebuilder remove an oval piece from the chainstay, then weld in a piece of bent plate. The fix gear of my avatar came out with a touch less clearance than I needed to run the biggest tire pushed all the way forward. It hit the chainstay bridge. Builder did exactly that (only used a piece of large diameter tubing, not bent plate). End result? It looks like that was planned and it works very nicely.

Now that fork - the now thinner portion at the bottom outboard of the grind looks like the perfect place for a crack to start. Every time you hit your front brake, you are loading that area highly. Remove material and you raise the stress. Aluminum does poorly with repeated high stresses. So, OP, at the very least, polish that area you ground until the surface is mirror smooth and look regularly for cracks, especially at the front under the brake. (When you brake, that portion will be in tension. The easier to see back portion will be in compression and is unlikely to crack until the fork is about to break.

Now you can improve your odds of fork failure causing a crash if you simply stay off the front brake.

big john

Really? You're faster than anyone else....in the world?

Seattle Forrest

​​​​​​Kinda? For some in here being mean it's a better sport than riding. Also, a lot of questions of this nature are ****posts so most people are reacting with the assumption that this is, too. Finally, a lot of people really like having teeth.

Iride01 

It's all relative to our own viewpoints. But yeah I agree we can be mean.

However while I agree you probably can get away with removing some material, it all depends on you never exceeding the new and lower force that can be put on the bike. While I might never do the things in my riding that put a lot of stress on a bike, After all we don't usually plan to do anything more than just ride a fairly smooth road. I don't plan to hit pothole or run over curb or such that I might accidentally encounter along the way.

I don't want to suddenly out of the blue try to do some of the things in this video and then right in the middle of a flip remember that I did to my bike what you did! <grin>

Hermes

Moved to Bicycle Mechanics.

datlas 

Can’t we move it to Trollheim??

squirtdad

dumb idea, the "chain clearance" just introduce a failure point an brittle material, aluminum that fractures, not bends.

removing material from the fork, which has some of most forces on it and failure is usually painful to the rided

People react because it is so dumb it must be a joke and don't want other people to try do do the same

the really bottom line: angle grinders are not a good bike tool. If you think you need to use one, stop and rethink

rsbob 

That’s ridiculous! Everyone knows that “dimpling” a carbon frame with a ballpeen hammer with 5 good blows, is the only way to do it. Get real!

Koyote

So you're just kind of dumb...Is that what you're saying?

cxwrench

Not mean, honest. And yes, you are easily that dumb. Or one of the most creative trolls ever.

Hermes

This thread has run its course. It is time to close.