Originally Posted by
lcayton
Hi folks,
I commute on a cyclocross bike with disc brakes and take it on the bus sometimes. The bus racks here are mounted on the front of the bus and have an arm that goes over the front wheel of your bike. Unfortunately, the arm digs into the fork of my bike -- before I realized it, I wasted a good carbon fork.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to protect the fork from the rack arms?
Sucks, and not to derail but what city are you in OP? We have racks on our buses here in Toronto, though I've not yet used one I'm curious if it's Toronto buses you've had trouble with, as I don't want to risk damaging my ride if I ever try to use them.
Cheers, and good luck with the remedy (the pipe or tube cushioning sounds like a plan, you could even get a budget bag of cable ties and carry some small side cutters to fix it on/snip it off if velcro can't work for you.l