blasphemy
Get b00b implants. Implants make everything better.
lol, oh you dont?
But it looks moto?
because inverted forks work so poorly that they're not the standard in any 2 wheeled sport
We clearly need something like an extended version of the RS-1. Moar oilz on teh dizks.
yep. my 16 year old F1 uses a 30mm axle with adapters but the XTD's didnt
Carbon was mentioned for production build.heck ohlins could be sold for 5000£ and teams buy them for performance alone.its no any sense for average buyer.
Yes, the reason why it's "not the same" is that non-inverted moto forks generally don't use brake arches, so there's not much difference between an inverted or non inverted moto as far as torsion, they rely on huge crowns (some don't even have a "steerer tube"), stanchions and hubs. One of the main issues they have to deal with is someone casing a double, which is where the bigger uppers of an inverted can help, but in the bike world, you can get the same benefit by just making your stanchions bigger on a non-inverted, and if you do, you retain your brake arch and significantly better torsional resistance.
Nope. Top teams aren't buying anything. Don't kid yourself. Unless Ohlins sponsors them they will ride sram who pays them actual money.
You are talking about an industry that pushed two complete new wheel sizes through although there are only minor (if at all) performance upgrades. If Öhlins hypes the fork enough they will sell like sliced bread.
not to mention you're not dumping money into a set of casting molds.
Exactly my point. Stiffness to wait ratio is a whole different matter on bicycles compared to motos.
You are right that it's cheaper. This is why Avalanche made their inverted forks for so many years, because manufacturing an inverted fork is relatively easy, you can just CNC and machine tubes and crowns, etc. If you are going to make a non-inverted fork, you don't really have any cheap options. You have to CNC from a massive block of aluminum like the old limited production Super T, which is incredibly wasteful and still expensive, or invest in lowers-casting equipment, which is probably best farmed out to taiwan or china due to the expense. When you decide to change your travel or some spec, the change is relatively easy with a machined inverted fork.
When it came out it was. It weighed nothing.I honestly thought this was going to be a winner:
from what i understand, ohlins does not sponsor anyone.
the super just had a bolted brace, so no trickier than an inverted in terms of custom fabrication; you're just adding hardware weight, and (i'm assuming) losing stiffness with the 3 part interface (though i imagine if they were keyed together this could be minimized).
Whoa, that existed?
You realize the legs on those forks were CNCed from massive blocks of aluminum, right? The non-pro models (as in "production") were incredibly expensive to manufacture. The first ones were something outrageous like $2400 or so, then it came down to something like 1800, but still massively expensive for the day. Once the "pro" models came out they went to the casted aluminum lowers.
http://www.reebcycles.com/2011/maverick-duc-36-carbon/
