Originally Posted by
unterhausen
That's because the owners are too embarrassed to admit they did such a thing, and it's too much effort to post a picture using a mouth stick. ."
Not on this day and age. Posting stupidity is rewarded on the Internet :-/
Originally Posted by
unterhausen
Depending on the blade, steel forks are a bit marginal. That's why cheap bikes have aluminum or carbon forks. Forks undergo a lot of cyclic stress. Your hole quality will be bad, and that is more likely to promote crack initiation. Use a clamp.
That is incorrect all around; the industry moved to aluminum because it was cheaper to produce, not better. If anything aluminum and carbon are inherently prone to cope with stress poorly. Also there is no reason to believe my hole quality will be bad specially because I use reamers to finish taping holes on work like this.