ebnash
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I've had a couple crashes on the Pro 29 and to be honest, the lock block just seems more like an annoyance than frame protection. I guess it at least minimizes how much the fork can turn into the downtube, but in my opinion, it spins way too easy.
High speed into a rutted 90 degree turn and I threw the front end into a banking to initiate the turn and the lock block spun. Wasn't even going to be a crash, but it turned into one because the stupid thing rotated. Rotated enough that the damper cap on the fork tore the rubber frame protection off and gouged into the carbon on the down tube. Maybe mine is just too loose or I'm just to hard on the bike, but to be honest, I ride all my other bikes like this and don't have a problem.
I'm sure the frame is fine and I have no worries there, but I don't like the limitations of the lock block, as I wish it were tighter and had a wider window of free movement. Seriously considering removing it from the frame and opening the free movement notch to allow a full lock to lock. What's the point if it allows this? You'll also see that when the protect rubber pad (YT's Hardware, not mine) was torn from the frame, it removed chunks of paint along with it...
High speed into a rutted 90 degree turn and I threw the front end into a banking to initiate the turn and the lock block spun. Wasn't even going to be a crash, but it turned into one because the stupid thing rotated. Rotated enough that the damper cap on the fork tore the rubber frame protection off and gouged into the carbon on the down tube. Maybe mine is just too loose or I'm just to hard on the bike, but to be honest, I ride all my other bikes like this and don't have a problem.
I'm sure the frame is fine and I have no worries there, but I don't like the limitations of the lock block, as I wish it were tighter and had a wider window of free movement. Seriously considering removing it from the frame and opening the free movement notch to allow a full lock to lock. What's the point if it allows this? You'll also see that when the protect rubber pad (YT's Hardware, not mine) was torn from the frame, it removed chunks of paint along with it...