Inverted front forks?

[Marmoot]

that's not true. He only wants to promote the USD fork for sales, and it works.
Real proof that it has great Bling factor and sex appeal.

[gav]

How about something like this then? Still got RWU forks, betcha there aint too much flexing going on with this setup?
An early CBR600 does have fairly spindly forks agreed, but also has a fairly basic steel frame too. However if lets say Honda chose too, I'm sure they could produce a bike with RWU forks that would satisfy 99% of the riders on this forum, who wouldnt be able to fault it. However as its deemed unfashionable then this is unlikely, but Honda were one of the last manufacturers to switch, the Fireblade for a long time ran RWU forks, never read of anyone complaining of the forks hitting the header pipes did ya?

[Biff]

Then I' think I'll work on this brilliant idea I've had. If turning the forks upside down is a good thing, why not extend it and reverse the forks? Put the back wheel (and swing arm) at the front and the front wheel (and forks) at the back, Don't laugh, they laughed at the Earles fork too. And just ask any BMW nut how good they were.

Been done good sir. By Benelli I think...on some new fangled concept come production machine. They sold in the UK for around 30K GBP new if mammories serve me correct. Tesla, Telsar...something like that.

First one to confirm I'm not barking gets bling......please.

[gav]

Bimota Tesi?

[Biff]

Bimota Tesi?

Thanks Gav. Bling in the mail.

Looks more like a telilever (sp??) front end to me?

[inlinefour]

My new bike has then and I've never had a bike with them before. Feels a whole lot better than anything else Ive had but thats probably cause its new tecknaloligy.

[laRIKin]

How about something like this then? Still got RWU forks, betcha there aint too much flexing going on with this setup?
An early CBR600 does have fairly spindly forks agreed, but also has a fairly basic steel frame too. However if lets say Honda chose too, I'm sure they could produce a bike with RWU forks that would satisfy 99% of the riders on this forum, who wouldnt be able to fault it. However as its deemed unfashionable then this is unlikely, but Honda were one of the last manufacturers to switch, the Fireblade for a long time ran RWU forks, never read of anyone complaining of the forks hitting the header pipes did ya?

As I said before, (in a round about way) their is nothing wrong with RWU forks.
In some way they are better. (cheaper and easy to tune)
The only real advantage in USD forks is their strength and for an off road bike I would go more for the USD forks because of that.
But for a road bike I would not care, its down to the tuning of the forks.

Rik

[gav]

Yip, dead right there!

[Motu]

My FA 50 had USD forks,that was some seriously quality front end - when you carry an 11 plate battery in the front basket on gravel roads you want the strongest front end money can buy - I reckon I'd be dead now if it had conventional forks....I'm sold on USD forks now....

My BSA Bantam had USD forks too,you had to grease them with a grease gun,and black pus ran down the forks - way ahead of their time were BSA Bantams,the public just didn't understand.

[Ixion]

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My BSA Bantam had USD forks too,you had to grease them with a grease gun,and black pus ran down the forks - way ahead of their time were BSA Bantams,the public just didn't understand.

rofl:

they did too. so much for the "latest trend". So all these sprotsbikes are falling over themselves to emulate the handling of a bezza bantam

(I never broke 'em but, and Gawd knows I tried hard enough.)

[Brian d marge]

That would be the mighty D1 ,,,,a few here may have been emplyed by the post office riding one ....
The damping in those forks were constant AND they suffered little from seal stiction

Technology indeed

Stephen
I had a D7 with a 185 big bore kit and epoxyed transfer ports ,,,,,its still being seen round london !!!

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

The 2nd moment of Inertia changes from just under the bottom clamp to the axil ( gets smaller ) so in the place of Max bending they are the stiffist ...and as the seals are placed at a part of the fork with the largest area the seal suffers from stiction WHich is NOT friction but a product of friction .
So the RSU fork has a lower area But is not as stiff So in EXTREME circumstance they will bend more for a given force ...translated unless you are doing a stoppie ,,or are running slicks that are up to temp ...or are called rossi ....or just a legend in your own life time ( me ) you wont notice much if any difference forks under heavy loads actually walk in a figure eight AND I have been watching ,,,but havent seen them do it yet ..must be when I am asleep .......
The damping controll is similar ,,,crude

but at the end of the day ,,,I like USD forks they look nice ,,,,,,,

Stephen

[cowpoos]

As I said before, (in a round about way) their is nothing wrong with RWU forks.
In some way they are better. (cheaper and easy to tune)
The only real advantage in USD forks is their strength and for an off road bike I would go more for the USD forks because of that.
But for a road bike I would not care, its down to the tuning of the forks.

Rik

are you talking about rwu cartridge or conventional with emulaters?

USD forks are a cartrage fork mounted usd...and all catridge forks have far better/easyer tunablility than conventional forks