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Old 04-14-16 | 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by seely
The way I've mounted mine on mid fork mounts is to cut a ~2" length of steerer tube from a junk fork at the co-op, pound a fork starnut into it, and then get a long bolt and headset top cap and thread the the bolt in through the top cap, through the starnut and into the mid blade eyelet on the fork.
I did something similar, but I just drilled a hole in a 1 inch diameter piece of wood from a broom handle (remember when they were actually made of wood?) and used a long M5 bolt to thread it to the midfork brazeon for the front low rider rack.

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