Check out the forks on this ride
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Check out the forks on this ride
How the heck do they get an angle like that to work? The frame/fork is by Crust Bikes of Belmar, NJ.
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^^^^^^ I'm digging the biohazard chainring.
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What matters in fork geometry is where the hub sits relative to the axis of the steerer (and head) tube(s). How the tubing gets from the crown to the hub doesn't matter. Traditionally, fork blades continued down the steerer line, then were bent forward to place the hub the proper distance from the line for the desired handling. But that is just tradition. Look at the Pinarellos of the past 10-15 years, Their trademark was a fork that swooped forward, then back to the hub.
That fork looks like roughly the same geometry as my old Competition, just executed very differently.
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That fork looks like roughly the same geometry as my old Competition, just executed very differently.
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It looks weird. As do the recent Pinnys.
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It's a straight legged fork.....that's not???
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It looks to be a very low trail design. That means the steering will be very quick. However, when you add a load in the handle bar bag and panniers, the steering slows. The two cancel each other out and you have a bike that handles nicely when loaded up for touring.
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Most modern bikes use a straight legged fork like that, though often its because it is carbon. It's still a low trail design so pretty comfortable for longer distances.
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Some nice mud flaps on those guards and you got a winner!
To the fork, I wonder about the stress they experience at the crown / blade junction.
To the fork, I wonder about the stress they experience at the crown / blade junction.
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Yeah.....just seems like, if you were out of the saddle and pushing down, all your mass would be on that crown/blade area.
This bike was posted on The Radavist. The caption mentions that the rider this bike was made for is a "lighter rider".
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The fork legs are straight, but they fasten to the fork crown at an angle. Imagine, or use a straight edge against your screen, and make a line straight through the head tube and extend the line down to the level of the wheel axle height from the ground. You'll see the geometry is normal. The leg is just made differently. It's not new.
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I can't tell if that fork has a crown or if it's segmented construction. The blades still do most of the deflecting, but segmented construction can have issues if the "crown" tubes are underbuilt.
They also have a 1" steerer disc fork.
They also have a 1" steerer disc fork.
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excuse the poor graphics, but this may help visualize
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As in post #14 , my immediate thought was to Colnago and their Precisa fork, which they introduced circa 1987. Though there were early examples, they popularized the concept for road bicycles. BMX bicycles adapted straight leg forks the motorcycle industry. From the very late 1970s onward, straight blades were the dominant style in BMX.
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Straight forks are more efficient.
Just like L-shaped cranks are more efficient.
Duh!
(just joking, I am not actually that stupid)
Just like L-shaped cranks are more efficient.
Duh!
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Once could argue that the curve in the blade not only positioned the wheel for steering performance but also provided some suspension. If you think about it, the crown always was subjected to forces associated with suspension as well. Maybe that is part of the reason for dual or triple plate crowns, to provide strength against the moment arm. there were some pretty extreme "bent" forks BITD. I always thought the following was a bit more than most but have seen others more extreme.
2008-06-01 15.25.53, on Flickr
There was a thread a couple of years ago of the Trek fork failures as a result of the moment arm forces, IIRC 1982 420"s?
And yes the crowns will deform (from the same bike):
P9051190, on Flickr
2008-06-01 15.25.53, on Flickr
There was a thread a couple of years ago of the Trek fork failures as a result of the moment arm forces, IIRC 1982 420"s?
And yes the crowns will deform (from the same bike):
P9051190, on Flickr
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I'm curious how long the finish will last before rust takes over. Unless it's oiled, which is something some builders do on their own bikes.
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Any Mech Engr with lots of dynamic FEA want to opine?
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Apparently someone made an angled crown, because Eric Estlund posted this fork recently https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZIGmil...on_share_sheet
I am a mechanical engineer with a sufficient background in FEA to have an opinion about this, but I'm not going to build a fork model to test this hypothesis. I don't think crowns can contribute much to the compliance, they are a lot thicker section than fork blades. You wouldn't want dynamic FEA anyway. A bent fork will have more compliance down in the bend, but the rest of the blade will probably not bend quite as much. I had a straight bladed fork for quite a while, it didn't seem any different to me than any raked fork I ever rode. It had about 55mm of rake. I have never ridden a bike with more rake than that for very long though. Working on changing that.
I am a mechanical engineer with a sufficient background in FEA to have an opinion about this, but I'm not going to build a fork model to test this hypothesis. I don't think crowns can contribute much to the compliance, they are a lot thicker section than fork blades. You wouldn't want dynamic FEA anyway. A bent fork will have more compliance down in the bend, but the rest of the blade will probably not bend quite as much. I had a straight bladed fork for quite a while, it didn't seem any different to me than any raked fork I ever rode. It had about 55mm of rake. I have never ridden a bike with more rake than that for very long though. Working on changing that.
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When Colnago introduced their straight blade Precisa fork in the very late 1980s, they had Ferrari perform testing on it and their traditional, curved rake fork. Reportedly, the Precisa fork had superior vibration absorption and better stability on uneven surfaces. They claimed this improved headset life expectancy and resulted in greater comfort, control and safety. I would have suspected some weight savings but none was mentioned. Of course, they didn't mention the cost savings afforded by eliminating one process from the blade manufacturing operation. This would initially have been offset by the tooling costs for a new crown but there would have been long term savings.