Originally Posted by
chagzuki
I see you cold-set the steel fork; did you have any issues fitting the hub in the ti fork?
Only my heart racing and sweat pooring down my face in terror as I did it.
It wasn't so bad though, this motor being 80mm wide and having to spread the forks about 3mm further apart on each side. You have to actually spread them further as they sping back, more so with Ti!
It was a risk but I have done it before on my Brompton steel forks. Harder on Ti forks and I may live to regret it, but hey you only live once. At worst it will cost me a new set of Ti forks.
You also have to take a little "metal" off either side of the dropout for the larger motor shaft, about 1mm each side which was a challenge with Ti though my dremel did its work. I also modified the Brompton dropout washers/lugs to help maintain the secure wheel fixings.
PS This rides unasisted much better than my 14Kg steel Brompton conversion and even that is light by most conversions I have seen!
Regards
Jerry