You guys are too clever, ive no idea how they have bent but projection now have them and have comfirmed it. They are bent. Ive had a pdf image of the new links they are mighty. Ill post a pic up when they have been made,

Steve i adjust mine when i go trail riding as my offroad wheelset sits a good inch and a half taller than my road wheelset. So i use the +5mm offroad and the +25mm on road. Keeps.my geometry very similar.

Perhaps just a strange coincidence but before i shipped them off i had them measured at work on the co-ordinate measuring machine and how i had them on the bike at the +5mm setting (for offroad) now measured exactly the same as the standard links too within a tenth of a mm. They where also just beginning too bow outwards. 0.78mm over the length of the link.

Now Pleiades, you sir have a very good point about the extension of the shock. But not with relation too my trailer. When i ride offroad, contrary to most people i actually run very little rebound damping (ohlins piggyback shock) I find this helps the Teneres traction on the loose rocky terain i ride on,.but can leed to the rear end bucking under me on high speed jumps and big landings, its a trade off i know as more damping would help the landings but take away the wheels ability to track the ground on fast rough terrain.
Its a trade off and i ride more fast rough stuff than I do jumps. But maybe this is how they have become bent?? That and running them in different settings often. Maybe be t one way and then the other??

On the road with the trailer (and or luggage) i run lots of rebound and compression too counteract the lever effect the trailer can have. The trailer has over 3500 miles on it now the biggest difference was made by actually learning how too load it properly haha.
Anyhoo. New massive links in the pipeline.

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