Protecting fork in work bike rack

[gaijintendo]

Here's the rack in question. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Well I reckon two 15cm bits of pipe insulation for 15mm pipe maybe slotted on your seatstays if not top tube (a la @Firestorm ) for carriage would do the business. I used to have a bit underneath my top tube just in front of the seat tube to ease the pressure when climbing flights of stairs at one end of a commute (for a few months).

 

[themosquitoking]

As you go about the place, liberate some off some scaffolding.

But, the scaffolding will get cold.

 

[gaijintendo]

Here is an tertiarily related spooky Halloween story.
I took my bike out of the rack, and got down to the main road and something felt clunky. I checks the race blade, but it seemed attached well.

When I stopped at the top of the hill I had figured it out. The stem was somehow loose. On any slight bump it felt like my bike had mysteriously developed suspension, but a broken variant. I tightened things up. The QR was flush so I didn't investigate.

So of course, nothing was better, stopped again after riding like I'd pooped myself, I checked the QR and it was held on by a spring's grace. The QR was flat for some reason, but pointing 15 degrees away, and I hadn't thought much about it. But it turned out to be incredibly slack. Just enough resistance to not spin around on every teensy bump.

That bike rack has it in for me.

 

[Tom B]

I am not sure how your employer would feel about it but what about wrapping the stand or the parts that touch in some duct tape or PVC insulting tape. I regularly use a stand outside a Lidl and a Morrisons and have put a couple of wraps of tape on that. So far they seem indifferent to it!

 

[RichardB]

insulting tape.

Glad I'm not the only one who says this.