L Track Fork Mount

[TimH]

I'd like to be able to secure my oddball bikes in the van, like I do my modern bikes, using a fork mount for L-Track.  But the minimum fork width the fork mount makers make seems to be 100mm, far too wide for my various Sunbeams, Humbers, Rudges, BSAs, Raleighs, Lentons, Moultons, and the Armstrong which are all closer to 90mm.  Any suggestions from the brain trust?

[Kenneth Ceaglske]

Something like this, grid off the excess length?  

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On Jan 15, 2025, at 3:35 PM, 'TimH' via Gentleman Cyclist <gentlema...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



I'd like to be able to secure my oddball bikes in the van, like I do my modern bikes, using a fork mount for L-Track.  But the minimum fork width the fork mount makers make seems to be 100mm, far too wide for my various Sunbeams, Humbers, Rudges, BSAs, Raleighs, Lentons, Moultons, and the Armstrong which are all closer to 90mm.  Any suggestions from the brain trust?

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[Syke]

Buy one of those clamps, then grind 5mm off each side.  I've noticed that the classic Raleigh Sports has a fork spacing of 90mm.

Syke
Ashland, Virginia

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[Mark Stonich]

If like me, you are cheap and have old bike parts laying around, you could make your own. From some angle, an old QR axle, locknuts and pitted cones. 

Lacking an old axle, a piece of threaded rod and nuts would be "Plan B”.

Most of you probably don’t have a lathe, but I make my own QR nuts. Which speeds up loading bikes with “Lawyer Lips”.

 

Mark Stonich
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Minneapolis MN USA
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On Jan 15, 2025, at 6:24 PM, 'Syke' via Gentleman Cyclist <gentlema...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Buy one of those clamps, then grind 5mm off each side.  I've noticed that the classic Raleigh Sports has a fork spacing of 90mm.

Syke
Ashland, Virginia

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

H.L. Mencken, (1926)

On Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 04:44:51 PM EST, 'Kenneth Ceaglske' via Gentleman Cyclist <gentlema...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Something like this, grid off the excess length?  

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L-Track Bike Fork Mount diyadventurevanco.com

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On Jan 15, 2025, at 3:35 PM, 'TimH' via Gentleman Cyclist <gentlema...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



I'd like to be able to secure my oddball bikes in the van, like I do my modern bikes, using a fork mount for L-Track.  But the minimum fork width the fork mount makers make seems to be 100mm, far too wide for my various Sunbeams, Humbers, Rudges, BSAs, Raleighs, Lentons, Moultons, and the Armstrong which are all closer to 90mm.  Any suggestions from the brain trust?

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[Jon Hanson]

I've seen the hillbilly version with a quick release through a hole drilled into a piece of 2x4 lumber, drywall screwed to a longer piece of lumber. Not pretty, but it laid in the back of a pickup bed and the bikes stayed upright. 

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[For2003]

Thanks for the ideas. I like the idea of making it out of bits and bobs. 

On Jan 15, 2025, at 6:42 PM, Jon Hanson <jon.m.h...@gmail.com> wrote:



I've seen the hillbilly version with a quick release through a hole drilled into a piece of 2x4 lumber, drywall screwed to a longer piece of lumber. Not pretty, but it laid in the back of a pickup bed and the bikes stayed upright. 

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If like me, you are cheap and have old bike parts laying around, you could make your own. From some angle, an old QR axle, locknuts and pitted cones. 

Lacking an old axle, a piece of threaded rod and nuts would be "Plan B”.

Most of you probably don’t have a lathe, but I make my own QR nuts. Which speeds up loading bikes with “Lawyer Lips”.

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