Sounds good, it's not going anywhere. Was barely used, I'm willing to part with it for $100 bucks, just throwing it out there for you or anyone else interested.

The brace sits right on the lip. I'd rather have the boots -- reason being ive replaced these fork seals before, there is a ton of dust, grit and grime in Philadelphia. Between the literally constant new construction and the condition of many of our roads you would think it was the third world.

I ride this bike every day. All year. Over needles, condoms, destroyed roads, homeless people, everything. The forks will, in some circumstances, twist. But at the speeds I'm typically riding, I don't have significant fear of a tank slapper. I've crashed. A lot. Slow aides and one bad high side. Once at 50 mph going literally through the intersection of second and market on my side.

I bought the brace thinking I would have some amazing handling response. I didn't get that. I did get stiffness that I think might be more appropriate for highway miles, I don't think it's totally useless, I just think it's not appropriate for what I do. I'm a social worker making home visits and encampment visits in the most dangerous parts of the United states, but I don't do much highway riding.

Anyway it was overpriced, and a waste of money.... For myself.

Thumper just curious, you still have the tkat brace? Is there a reason you want to replace this? Maybe I should read through the rest of the thread.

The way I did that was putting thin cardboard on the fender. Shoebox type.

This is what happened to my bike shortly after I installed the super brace. The stains you see on the asphalt are from the leaking fork oil.

The superbrace has since been removed and sold, and the fork seal has been replaced, but the new seal is leaking again less than a year later.

Might be a coincidence, but maybe the superbrace has deformed my fork tube where the seal wont seal properly.

Thanks for the photo Och.  It confirms my hunch that the superbrace is bent/bowed to contour over the fender (not 100% flat like some photos show).  I think your fork seal leak is a coincidence unless you really got after torquing down the superbrace to the point of deforming the fork (you are a big strong guy though so you might have done that!!  lol). I don’t think the brace could constrict down on the fork that much.

Michael - that’s a great upgrade, but I can barely do bolt-on mods without breaking something!

There is no way to deform the tube by over torquing the bolts on the superbrace, but I am thinking it may not allow the fork tubes flex as they normally would, and slightly deforms the metal. Just my theory, and I don't want to give bad reputation to the superbrace or any similar fork braces, but for me its just not worth the risk.