Bike / Product Year: 2021
Manufacturer: Boost (110x15mm) Fork Mounts
Model: 2 types available, Standard or RockShox Torque cap
Asking Price: £19 each, 2 for £34 (can be mixed types)
Location Nottingham UK
Description I designed this mount to allow us to fit our bikes into our VW Transporter (Caravelle) as the bikes would not fit in the van with the front wheels fitted due to the rear seating, however it is not designed to be vehicle specific. It has 3x5mm mounting holes to allow it to be fixed to different surfaces via flat headed screws / bolts etc (not supplied). For our use we have two of these screwed to a piece of 2x4 wood that we can place into / remove from our van whenever we need, A couple of bungee straps from the bike to the floor in combination with these mounts make the bikes very secure when travelling and we used them almost daily for fixing / removing bikes and for over 600 miles during the summer. The mount could be fixed direct to the floor of a van / pickup, or it could be fixed to a removable piece of wood (or metal) as we have done in our van.
Whilst other boost mounts are available (including lots of ways to make your own) I found that there were none available for the Rockshox Torque cap fitment which meant loading a bike meant messing around to line up the front axle and most were quite low which meant that it could be difficult to insert the axle. One of my designs is specifically for Torque cap front forks, both have enough height to allow axles to be fitted easily.
Another key aspect of this design is the orientation in which it is printed vs other 3d printed bike mounts. Any 3d printed object is printed in many thin layers, this layer by layer process potentially suffers from slight weakness along the layer lines, many 3d printed items offered for sale are printed without consideration of the physical load and other 3d printed bike mounts I see for sale are printed with the layer lines in line with the axle, this can introduce weakness along the same line as the axle, or between the base plate and the upright sections which can lead to failure of the mount. My mounts are printed on their end (rotated 90 degrees) which puts the slightly weaker layer lines at 90degrees to the axle and base plate, this makes the mount massively stronger and mounting the bike onto it actually produces a clamping force to the layer lines making it even stronger.
As this is a 3d printed part surface finish may vary slightly due to the printing process.
The item is printed in PETG material and not the more regularly used PLA which would likely soften / deform in a hot vehicle in the summer months.
Manufacturer: Boost (110x15mm) Fork Mounts
Model: 2 types available, Standard or RockShox Torque cap
Asking Price: £19 each, 2 for £34 (can be mixed types)
Location Nottingham UK
Description I designed this mount to allow us to fit our bikes into our VW Transporter (Caravelle) as the bikes would not fit in the van with the front wheels fitted due to the rear seating, however it is not designed to be vehicle specific. It has 3x5mm mounting holes to allow it to be fixed to different surfaces via flat headed screws / bolts etc (not supplied). For our use we have two of these screwed to a piece of 2x4 wood that we can place into / remove from our van whenever we need, A couple of bungee straps from the bike to the floor in combination with these mounts make the bikes very secure when travelling and we used them almost daily for fixing / removing bikes and for over 600 miles during the summer. The mount could be fixed direct to the floor of a van / pickup, or it could be fixed to a removable piece of wood (or metal) as we have done in our van.
Whilst other boost mounts are available (including lots of ways to make your own) I found that there were none available for the Rockshox Torque cap fitment which meant loading a bike meant messing around to line up the front axle and most were quite low which meant that it could be difficult to insert the axle. One of my designs is specifically for Torque cap front forks, both have enough height to allow axles to be fitted easily.
Another key aspect of this design is the orientation in which it is printed vs other 3d printed bike mounts. Any 3d printed object is printed in many thin layers, this layer by layer process potentially suffers from slight weakness along the layer lines, many 3d printed items offered for sale are printed without consideration of the physical load and other 3d printed bike mounts I see for sale are printed with the layer lines in line with the axle, this can introduce weakness along the same line as the axle, or between the base plate and the upright sections which can lead to failure of the mount. My mounts are printed on their end (rotated 90 degrees) which puts the slightly weaker layer lines at 90degrees to the axle and base plate, this makes the mount massively stronger and mounting the bike onto it actually produces a clamping force to the layer lines making it even stronger.
As this is a 3d printed part surface finish may vary slightly due to the printing process.
The item is printed in PETG material and not the more regularly used PLA which would likely soften / deform in a hot vehicle in the summer months.
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