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Old 02-07-18 | 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Kontact
You would just use those whichever of those numbers necessary to find where the front dropouts would be if the fork had no rake. You just follow the angles and lengths around to where it would be, using drop to calculate the head tube to dropouts as a fraction of the seat tube. Then you take that forth leg and compare it to the front center. The difference will be very close to rake.
Ok, that sounds pretty decent. Have you checked it against exact using the equation? How close did you come?
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