You have to love crap ideas like hub centre steering. The amount of effort burned on solving a problem that doesn't exist.
cf bloody wankel engines.
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JimH
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How many rose joints, arms, cranks and rods to do what? Look a bit different?
However, to tell the whole truth the 1D did look rather groovy to my 1990s eyes. Pointless but groovy.
However, to tell the whole truth the 1D did look rather groovy to my 1990s eyes. Pointless but groovy.
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But it's not a crap idea. Telescopic forks are a shit idea.
The reason shit ideas survive despite everything is bloody conservative customers and bean counters.
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Eddie Honda wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 5:41 pmBut it's not a crap idea. Telescopic forks are a shit idea.
The reason shit ideas survive despite everything is bloody conservative customers and bean counters, who know being able to sell things that customers want keeps them and their colleagues in a job.
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No, forks, like chains, just bloody work. Any effort to replace them is an utter failure.
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Mmmm, stoopid front end and shaft drive. With this heavy ugliness the Ambassador is truly spoiling us.
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Seems a bit too cheap to me.
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