![]() ![]() I am assuming this is why you would want to go this route - beauty instead of lower cost and less complexity. However, it is also very true that a well designed girder front end is a thing of beauty and can perform at least as good as a conventional tele (or maybe better: see Britten, in my earlier post). Yes, there are alternative front ends in production now (aka FFEs, or Funny Front Ends, as some motorcycle designers like to call them), but if you look at the top levels of racing and the majority of production bikes, teles are far in the majority. ![]() Distributed task execution engine with Girder integration. Get free shipping, 4 cashback and 10 off select brands with a Gold Club membership, plus free everyday tech support on aftermarket Motorcycle Front End Kits & motorcycle parts. maufacturability, the telescopic fork is the only way to go at this time, for both motorcycles and mountain bikes. Including weight gauges, fork extensions, work cages and rotators. If you were to forge a front end out of chrome alloy, or a higher carbon steel (1045+) the uneven application of heat could render the piece weaker in areas that got hotter, or stayed hot longer. The debate rages on as to what front suspension design is truly the best, but for performance vs. Even a mild 1018 cold rolled bar will begin to loose the rigidity of work hardening at 500. ![]() To look at mountain bike girder forks doesn't really make much sense because motorcycles have been using girders for decades before mountain bikes, and none of the mountain bike designs were all that successful in the long run (much like their motorcycle counterparts). ![]()
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