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New cheap ebike has a front fork issue. Hub is 100mm
Getting the front wheel on has been difficult to say the least, in fact i needed to force it. Measured the distance between the dropouts and its coming back as 88mm.
I cant say if the forks were crushed or whatever as theres no damage on the box, but 12mm of a difference is too much. Normally you'd as best have to deal with a couple of mm.
Any tricks ? like forcing the forks apart. Is that going to damage them ?
Normally it would be a return job, but i dont want to do that as its only the fork,returning would be a complete pain int he bum, and it was one of the crc buzzbikes so i wouldnt be able to get anything as good a replacement at that money.
Last option would be a new fork. though i dont see crc agreeing to that, they're going to want the whole thing back, so my only option is try to force the fork blades out or replace the fork entirely with something else, though getting a 700c disc fork isnt going to be cheap or easy.
Any thoughts/suggestions ?
Ta 🙂
Discovered the problem. Took the wheel back off and looking down at the dropouts from the bottom it looks twisted. So laid a piece of threaded rod in the dropouts and its really twisted, one side is really far forward of the other.
No damage to the box, so it was like that when packed or dropped maybe. no idea, but fubar for use.
Bollocks