How to Cut and Install a New Bike Fork 

Thank you. Bought a new bike and was unsure how to do this. Love your vids.

very informative as always. great videos!

Another great video thanks for sharing your knowledge.

thank you. best tutorial on this i've found!

Thank you Clint, very useful.

Very well said so clear and helpful thanks a lot

Thank you for making these very clear and helpful videos!! Merry Christmas

Niner RLT 9 RDO 👌 Called it when I saw how giddy you were demoing this at HQ!

Thanks for the video, very good tips

Hey Brother Clint nice informative vid, also the Kobalt tool boxes looking awesome.

Thanks for info now I learn how to do that

I'm excited to seen the RLT RDO review!

Thanks for the video. If I want to replicate my saddle to drop between two different bikes is there an easy way to measure that?

Just Picked up a Used Niner RDO - Orange Color MTB fork , with a FM-M009 Tideace Frameset : Celeste Color , Sun Ringle Duroc 35 Wheelset , 29x2.4 KING Tire , Saint Rear Mech

Hello Clint! Great YTVid - please can you tell me the hight or dimensions of the spacers you are using? Thanks again for so many good and excellent and thouroughly explained work procedures we need to do in order to acheive a perfect result! Merry Christmas ("God Jul" in Swedish :-) to you Clint and to your family!

perfect safety shoes

All that AND those safety shoes!!!!!

FYI - Niner warns against putting spacers on top of the stem. The expansion bolt is designed to offset the clamping force of the stem upon the carbon steerer tube. By putting spacers on top of the stem, the expansion bolt will not run the length of the stem, and not fully offset the clamping force. I ran mine with spacers on top (before I read the directions, haha) with no adverse consequences. So maybe Niner's warning is over-cautious lawyer-speak, but I thought I'd give you a heads up.

were you using 4 - 5 mm spacers?

Excellent tutorial, thank you ! Just going back a few video's and off current-topic, but I just purchased an RKT9rdo (also ride FL). I feel 120mm fork with 46 mm offset would be best for me, but most forks I see now are 51 mm. Would you ever consider using an angleset to slacken out the front ?

Very informative video my friend. Good job...

Good vid Clint. Was that a fine tooth count blade that you were using? I've done a few tube cuts and i found the finer tooth blade gave a smoother edge. That niner frame looks really good.

Do you grease your bearings before putting them in?

hi after cutting the carbon steer tube, do we need make it bevel 45 deg with grind tool?

Hey Clint,just wondering if you need any Grease when you have a carbon steer tube. For the bearings

I have a question about carbon forks. I just bought a new frameset, salsa vaya 2017, and it has a 15mm thru-axle in front, so I had to buy an adapter on my mavic allroad wheel that had 12mm thru-axle. Anyways, I fitted the adapter, and when I put the wheel on the fork, it does not slide to its place with no resistance, but the fork bends about 2-3mm to get the wheel in place. is that kind of "tightness" normal, or should there be no tension on a carbon fork? or did I just mess up something with the adapter? thanks!

Please, please do NOT use a hacksaw with a metal blade when cutting carbon, it can blunt and you can damage your fork by cutting it with a blunt blade. Use either a carbon specific blade or a blade for cutting tiles. They are the same thing. Otherwise great vid. Thumbs up

Question ? Did you add any Grease in the Bearing Cups into the Frame ???

I have bought parts for a road bike and the parts dont make sense with the fork installation. Please help 😅

hi clint how about building a carbon xc frame from china ?

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for the t-shirt trick you need to use wet layered fabric.

How to know if a crown race is needed?

I Measure 5x and Cut/ Drill 1x Had to install a LED Wing on a Chevy 1500 Full Size Shagging Wagon - Quilted Velvet Interior , with 5 Star Chrome Cragar : 275/55r15 Rims Miss that Van , Could just Trown the MTB inside ( Cavernous)

Remember (not You Sir, the others) to wipe the steerer tube really, really well to prevent the carbon fiber dust from getting into the grease that's in the headset bearings.

is this your new bike???

You sound like tom hanks

There are a few issues I'd raise with this video: Waving an exposed blade around near your shiny new carbon forks is just asking for trouble. Keep it sheathed until you need it and save yourself the regret. In fact, just put the knife down and mark the steerer tube with a pencil or marker. A fine white correction pen is ideal because it makes the mark easier to see when setting the fork in the saw guide and any reside can be wiped away. Using a normal hacksaw blade frays the carbon strands in your steerer which can bring about delamination issues further down the line. If you must use a saw blade, choose one with a high TPI count (teeth per inch). Better yet, invest in a carbon-specific blade which behaves more like sanding than cutting. These are slightly wider than a cutting blade, so you may need to buy an appropriate saw guide to accommodate it, or widen the gap in your regular saw guide with a couple of shims. Lastly, the carbon bung used in this video would not provide adequate reinforcement for the steerer tube inside of the stem clamp due to the additional spacers on top of the stack. It is important that the bung covers the full height of the stem clamp to prevent crushing the steerer tube.

Thank you and Merry Christmas Clint. Great video. You might want to apply one coat of clear fingernail polish as per Raoul's video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ieeCqlQy5sY.html. As a former Boeing engineer, he really knows his carbon.