Wheel packages, frame angles and ground clearance get most of the credit for every well-built chopper's "stance," but forks deserve some of the credit, too. If the length, width or technology of your fork aren't right for your bike, you'll know it the first time any honest friend stops by your garage to check out your project.
Twisted trees, floppy cables, front wheel crab-walking down the highway… all these and more are telltale signs of a backstreet builder who didn't dot his "i's" and cross his "t's" during his mock-up. When you consider the job it has to do—namely, to aim 800 pounds of man and machine past cellphone-wielding soccer moms and drunk NASCAR dads with precision and speed—the front end is the most important part of your motorcycle. Choose yours wisely, and make sure it looks the way you dreamed of and works the way it's supposed to.
way cool, short and sweet and great pictures, i love these write ups you guys do! i'm planin on shavin my lowers in about a month...somethin small...but its all those small things that add up to make a bike personal
cool feature...butt no FL's or wide glides, Banna Girders, custom front ends??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
if you re going to show them show um all!!
A photo essay on forks, but several captions were about brakes & headlights. I get the connection, but, as others have said, the absence of wide glide or FL front ends makes the essay incomplete.
i've been looking through all the old magazines trying to find these banjanxed
leaf spring forks i remember seeing. no luck. they weren't like the indian; they held the axle between two over-extended leafsprings! nothing held the wheel
parallel to the bike! the ads ran for 3 months before litigation put them out of business. if anyone can find the old ads, send me a copy. they ran sometime
between '68 and '73 i'm guessing... oh yeah, great article.
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if you re going to show them show um all!!
Magickman
Good job.
C
Nubby
Nice pics though.
Zooligan
Josheastvan
steffan
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leaf spring forks i remember seeing. no luck. they weren't like the indian; they held the axle between two over-extended leafsprings! nothing held the wheel
parallel to the bike! the ads ran for 3 months before litigation put them out of business. if anyone can find the old ads, send me a copy. they ran sometime
between '68 and '73 i'm guessing... oh yeah, great article.
philbey