Why are front forks all upside down??

[Tom \Johnny Sunset\ Sherman]

Andrew Muzi mused:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> Cannondale Lefty?
>>> Upside down fork, no issue with left-right connection (spring/damper),
>>> sealing and brakes (disk only). Pretty smart if you look at it this
>>> way (I never did)
>
> Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:
>> How can something with only one leg be a fork?
>
> In the olden days, a bicycle had 'forks'. The term became singular at
> some point, obviously more singular with that thing.

"Hey, one of your forks fell off" - yelled at me while riding one of my
bikes with a mono-strut connecting the front hub to the headset.

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[[email protected]]

On Sep 30, 8:46 am, "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Cannondale Lefty?
> > Upside down fork, no issue with left-right connection (spring/damper),
> > sealing and brakes (disk only). Pretty smart if you look at it this
> > way (I never did)
>
> How can something with only one leg be a fork?

A fork with one tine is a skewer, but in
bicycle usage that word is already taken.

I'm still waiting for Cannondale to invent
a brake with a pad on only one side.

Ben

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andrew Muzi mused:
> >> [email protected] wrote:
> >>> Cannondale Lefty?
> >>> Upside down fork, no issue with left-right connection (spring/damper),
> >>> sealing and brakes (disk only). Pretty smart if you look at it this
> >>> way (I never did)
> >
> > Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:
> >> How can something with only one leg be a fork?
> >
> > In the olden days, a bicycle had 'forks'. The term became singular at
> > some point, obviously more singular with that thing.
>
> "Hey, one of your forks fell off" - yelled at me while riding one of my
> bikes with a mono-strut connecting the front hub to the headset.

The shouter was clearly illiterate, Tom. The missing part was a "tine".

All down with the mono-struts,

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

 

[jim beam]

[email protected] wrote:
> On Sep 30, 8:46 am, "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> Cannondale Lefty?
>>> Upside down fork, no issue with left-right connection (spring/damper),
>>> sealing and brakes (disk only). Pretty smart if you look at it this
>>> way (I never did)
>> How can something with only one leg be a fork?
>
> A fork with one tine is a skewer, but in
> bicycle usage that word is already taken.
>
> I'm still waiting for Cannondale to invent
> a brake with a pad on only one side.
>
> Ben
>

ever heard of vespa?

 

[John Dacey]

"Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam." - Sigismund

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:46:11 -0500, "Tom \"Johnny Sunset\" Sherman"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>How can something with only one leg be a fork?

and then on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:21:21 -0500, also wrote:

>"Hey, one of your forks fell off" - yelled at me while riding one of my
>bikes with a mono-strut connecting the front hub to the headset.

If one scrutinizes the difference between fork and forks so closely,
does not the term "mono-strut" suffer a similar defect?

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