Lawwill Leader 3 air linkage suspension fork

[Colin]

Wow!
and I thought our parallelogram forks looked outlandish!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=161035881034#ht_1314wt_1399

This is real "steam punk" engineering!

Anyone ever seen one of these in real life?

Col.

[fyrstormer]

Technically Dieselpunk (Start of WW1 - End of WW2), or possibly Atompunk (After WW2 - End of Cold War), as Steampunk takes place prior to the widespread commercial availability of aluminum, but regardless of that, it certainly looks interesting. Lots of moving parts to maintain, though; I hope those bearings are sealed.

[Spokes]

WOW TWICE! When you see things like this it makes you wonder where all the ingenious inventors have gone . In the good old days there were lots of fresh and different ideas to the standard bike. Whyte spring to mind.

Chris

[w2zero]

They were very handy to point to when someone called my Girvin fork weird.   Hmmmm,  mount a disc caliper on that hummer!

[fyrstormer]

It actually wouldn't be entirely impractical. Weld the caliper mounting tabs onto the front-right portion of the fork instead of the rear-left, install the caliper in a trailing configuration instead of a leading configuration, and install the wheel backwards. The forces should all be the same, just in opposite directions. Mathematically speaking, the amount of strain on the fork parts should be identical for the same rate of deceleration, regardless of brake design, though using a disc brake *would* distribute the strain asymmetrically.

[kiwi]

mount the caliper to the links....anti dive properties

[fyrstormer]

mount the caliper to the links....anti dive properties

:hides:

[ronnielad01]

That is a serious looking kit.
Could look good on my XP6
Would it fit?.Who knows,its sold