fork crowns with angled stanchion holes?
- Thread starter ritche
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Are you high or have you just figured since headsets and shock bushings can be offset, forks shouldn't be a problem?
I had a few minutes to think about it and I came up with is this, just keep casing jumps until you get your desired fork angle. simple and cheap.
Could be done.
BCD did it back in the day.
He called it his "angle of attack" design.
He built a custom fork around it that positioned the dropout where it was supposed to be.
It would only work for a specific stack height.
It would not change your effective steering/head angle.
It would do very strange things to your steering.
BCD did it back in the day.
He called it his "angle of attack" design.
He built a custom fork around it that positioned the dropout where it was supposed to be.
It would only work for a specific stack height.
It would not change your effective steering/head angle.
It would do very strange things to your steering.
It would be no different than changing the offset of the crowns or dropouts, just more difficult and it would possibly help with high speed sharp hits by angling the suspension travel more inline with the impacts.
Why? If you want more offset it's easier to accomplish that at the crowns or dropouts.
Changes the forks impact angle. Changes fork offset which changes trail.
It can and has been done. (Works supercross bikes have done this in the past)
The stack height hasto be absolutely perfect this is the main problem as anything other than design height would just result in missalignment if you can't grasp that fact, please never attempt to build a tripple clamp or you will probably win a Darwin award.
And what the **** is everyone's obsession with slack slack slack go buy a chopper and ride it down hill won't you. I hate hate hate slack feels like garbage.
It can and has been done. (Works supercross bikes have done this in the past)
The stack height hasto be absolutely perfect this is the main problem as anything other than design height would just result in missalignment if you can't grasp that fact, please never attempt to build a tripple clamp or you will probably win a Darwin award.
And what the **** is everyone's obsession with slack slack slack go buy a chopper and ride it down hill won't you. I hate hate hate slack feels like garbage.
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They only feel like crap if you don't ride fast or on anything steep. Then they feel great.
I still think the slack bikes can turn sharper with an equivalent change to the offset/trail measurement. You'd do the same on a moto otherwise the handling would go to hell quickly.