My new rig!
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one of my neighbors was still riding a raven up until this summer. met its demise when a rack failed and it fell off while the vehicle was moving.
From the looks of this bike, it probably has 3 different BB standards, Stan.
Come on, it was the 90s and early 2000s. It didn't matter if it made sense. They literally threw all the shit on the wall to see what would stick. If you could dream it, you could prototype it and get it in MBA magazine.
That is the single most comprehensive collection of linkage forks I have ever seen put together Jm_. Kudos.
http://m.pinkbike.com/photo/13252244/
There's also this wacky number Rob Metz of Zerode had in the works.
Seems to address the weird wheel path most linkage forks take, plus it looks like it's off a space ship
There's also this wacky number Rob Metz of Zerode had in the works.
Seems to address the weird wheel path most linkage forks take, plus it looks like it's off a space ship
Marin and Easton/Manitou did that .
I think if I rode that over time my right arm would go Popeye to compensate for the mass.
i still just want to see somebody build a floating linkage for a normal fork.
I've looked into this. Floating caliper with a push rod connecting to the crown.
Trouble is, to get reasonable amounts of anti-dive, the brake link needs to be quite long (about the same length as the wheel radius).
If the brake link is shorter (aka neater), there would be so much anti-dive that the fork would top-out under braking.
I find these linkage forks pretty interesting from the perspective of axle path, anti-dive, and the way trail changes throughout travel. But they're all pretty ugly, and that's the bottom line for most people.