Fork prep article

Triathlon Forum
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I had to do some fork prep for the Carbonaero that is going onto my Power V. I thought this would be a good item to share with everyone.

http://biketestblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/fork-prep-for-dummies-part-1.html

Note that most pro bike team mechanics remove the paint from the dropouts of their team riders’ frames and forks to facilitate quick wheel changes. This oft-missed step in frame prep goes along with making certain that the head tube and BB shell are faced and square, as well as chasing the threads of bosses, etc.

I will also show how to properly remove the lawyer tabs of forks.

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what about carbon dropouts (on 100% carbon forks), your thoughts?

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Don’t touch them with sandpaper.

I hope they use some metal on the faces of the dropouts, or you would have one chewed-up dropout.

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*“I will also show how to properly remove the lawyer tabs of forks” *

From my own experience:

Lawyer tabs safed my neck when one of the washers in those lightweight skewers of my front wheel broke during a race.

Without them the front wheel would have come out for sure at about 30 mph as I tried to “bunnyhop” a bump in the road.

I used to file them down too…not anymore.