suspender geeks...

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Re: suspender geeks...
December 05, 2009 05:16PM

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Would the angled strut also mean a larger fluid capacity? For some benefit I would assume.

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Re: suspender geeks...
December 06, 2009 12:18AM

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Pete Wrote:
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> About 10-15 years ago some bike company came out
> with a neat suspension fork, instead of being
> telescopic, it was on a linkage, and the wheel's
> travel was J-shaped. It was supposed to work
> extremely well, as long as all those pivots
> weren't loose.
>
>
> Pete Remner
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
> 1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
> 1978

Trivia: Bob Girvin(Proflex) and Horst Leitner(Amp Research) were the two mountain bike designers that made versions of that fork. This design was an evolution of motorcycle fork designs from the 1920s-1930s.

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