idiot?

[Zoiders]

Lefties are interesting and fun to ride but they are the most non user serviceable fork out there.

Once you have bought into the concept Cannondale have got you over the barrel for parts and servicing as they need a lot of tools and parts that are not openly on sale to the public, a very complex fork, a hell of a lot of moving parts.

 

[Arch]

Lefties are interesting and fun to ride but they are the most non user serviceable fork out there.

Once you have bought into the concept Cannondale have got you over the for barrel parts and servicing as they need a lot of tools and parts that are not openly on sale to the public, a very complex fork, a hell of a lot of moving parts.

Well, if you must have suspension. A non suspended single sider is no bother.

 

[Jezston]

Just saw a lad on a lovely white cannondale single speed. Only problem was it only had half of the front fork!

Surely this is a one way ticket to a&e?

You didn't think the guy had actually chopped off one of his forks did you?

 

[henshaw11]

I think they were a racing thing, makes it quicker to change the wheel, but has to be heavier than a conventional fork to be stiff enough, so purely cosmetic on a road bike.

Hmmm...it would have been in superbike racing, wheel-changing mid-race isn't normally done unless they get very caught out by weather (and even then I think that only really applies to motogp, SBK runs two heats of fewer laps I think so it's even less practical unless it's before they've actually started). AFAIR they'd produced the SS version for the tarty looking road bike (as you said, cosmetics), which is the basis of the SBK bike, but on the track at extreme lean angles there wasn't enough sideways flex to help keep the rubber on the floor..eventually the rideability won over the marketing aspect

 

[byegad]

The Windcheetah has a leftie on it, doesn't it?

Sam

Two lefties and a rightie. All three wheels are suspended on one side only. Mikes book explained it all and while it looks plain wrong on a DF it is engineered to do it.

 

[aoj]

It has been done on motorcycles.

see the link http://www.motorcycl...nfly/index.html

I also remember seeing photos some years ago of an army bike with the fork to allow quick wheel changes.

 

[Arch]

I think if a single sided support is enough for this:

it's fine for a bike...