History of the sus fork
supersonic
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damn i remember the Nolan shock too which came up to the bars on the K2.0
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hang on joe murray started rockshox right? but that sort of fork is stiffer than forks we have now just it is very limited in travel.0
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RS was started by Paul Turner and Steve Simons in 1989.
Doesn't look very stiff t me, that lower linkage looks very flexy.0 -
"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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He designed the Kona P2 as well.0
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I nearly bought an Amp fork last year, because I thought it was a thing of beauty!
Felt rather embarassed when I asked if my LBS could service one and they laughed!
*Rock Lobster Team Tig SL (22lb 14oz)
*C. Late 1950's Fixed Gear
*1940 Raleigh Dawn Tourist with rod brakes0 -
Nice read, thanks for the link supersonic.0
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The K2 Smart fork was an interesting one - used a piezo crystal powered by a 9volt battery as an auto damping adjuster!
Not sure what it offered over a shimmed damper, but the external appearance was very modern back then.0 -
You cant beat the old forks with the foam bungs in them instead of coil springs
In hot weather they were bouncier than a pogo stick
In cold weather they were as solid as a frozen corpse and about as livelyFig rolls: proof that god loves cyclists and that she wants us to do another lap0 -
supersonic wrote:The K2 Smart fork was an interesting one - used a piezo crystal powered by a 9volt battery as an auto damping adjuster!
Not sure what it offered over a shimmed damper, but the external appearance was very modern back then.
It offered marketing opportunities
Very shocked to see no mention of Raleigh's revolutionary Activator suspension. Its pogo stick action was affectionately known as "the dogs", the spotted red-brown stanchions were a bold fashion statement and the intermittent sticking is a feature still imitated by modern fork manufacturers beginning with the letter M.0 -
Hehe, I had a pair of Indy XCs.
I used to love them though! I was a better rider back then lol.0 -
Hey, my other half's bike has Indy's on
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I wasn't slating them lol0
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I think there is a very modern look about that proflex!0
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They are still as good as they were 8+ years ago... unlike my marzocchi (on my commuter) which are now well and truly rigid..... hopefully to be replaced by some exotic carbon forrks in the near future......0
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John Whyte had a similar setup to the future shock, didn't he?
And that K2 is about the same age as my old wolf ridge, which still gets ridden (see sig), and which works very well to this day.
Hmm, this thread just reminded me of an old feller who used to live opposite. When he first saw my wolf ridge, he was blown away. He'd never seen a pushbike with suspension forks before, let alone fully suspended. He was quite blown away with it.
Then he started talking about how he'd had an idea once of trying to build one, when he was very young. He went to fetch some ancient, crinkly pieces of paper, on which, were designs for a sully suspended pushbike. Nothing unusual in that, except, this is something he was planning to build, but he got called away to war (WWII) before he got round to it, and the idea was abandoned!
He even shared some concepts of his about feedback to "the feet" and so on. It turns out this guy was something of an engineering genius, and was well ahead of his time, but circumstances led him astray!0 -
Raymondavalon
from a post in "Your rides"
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"Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
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I have an 856 with rock-hard elastomers gathering dust in my garage, that 959 looks nice though.0
