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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #25 on: February 29, 2012, 03:58:55 PM »
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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #26 on: February 29, 2012, 04:21:59 PM »


Cool story & video.  8)
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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #27 on: February 29, 2012, 04:51:31 PM »
I saw a documentary on the guys that discovered those bugs, Lord Howe island is in the middle of no where, beautiful and wild all at once... Incredible fishing as well.... ;)
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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2012, 12:28:24 PM »
Very imformative, I wonder if they would let me have some for bait? ;D
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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2012, 07:27:15 PM »
This thread is just too CREEPY!   :o

Back to how it all started, the forks tubes and the abuse they take.  There is an alternative to the gaiters that would look nice and still protect the swept area of the tubes.  My 1800 has inverted forks and mounted to the axle bosses and extending upward in front of the swept area of the sliders is a nice chrome shield just wide enough to protect the finish from road crap and bug juice.  It would not be hard to create a custom looking shield that clamped around the top of the fork leg and provided the same protection to a conventional fork set up.  You could leave the gaiters off and still protect the fork tubes.

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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #30 on: March 06, 2012, 06:51:54 PM »
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Re: What's eating your forks?
« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2012, 07:32:52 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on March 06, 2012, 06:51:54 PM
Holy Crap!!!! :o

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17273309

I was just looking at those pics here on a news site here, lucky they are small spiders. Look up "funnel web spiders" extremely deadly.... ;D :o
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What's eating your forks?
« Reply #32 on: March 06, 2012, 07:51:30 PM »
Here you go lone x...

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