Cycle World Podcast
Cycle World Podcast
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Why the TELESCOPIC FORK keeps WINNING—Alternative front suspension FAILS!
50 minutes Posted Jul 25, 2024 at 3:49 am.
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Moving the problems! Alternative front suspension has some advantages over the telescopic fork that's on nearly every motorcycle made today—front swingarms, Hossack, RADD, Troll Engineering, girder—but these other designs never take over. Some problems are solved, but new ones emerge! Technical Editor Kevin Cameron has seen them all and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer has ridden many. Why does the telescopic fork keep winning? Listen to the Cycle World Podcast to find out.