Single Sided Fork Motorcycles !
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2023
- In this video, you will see motorcycles with an unconventional and interestingly designed front fork.
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Monster! Each video you produce astounds me, with the amount of research you do!
Brilliant and thank you sir.
An English engineer called Richard Difazzio designed and built a single sided front fork and suspension system with hub centre steering. Grafted onto , I think a Suzuki T500, I had the chance of a very short test ride , it proved to be easy to ride and be more stable than I expected.
Other than it being slightly less constrained, result being that it can potentially twist at the bends making funky angles (can be overcome by increasing overall stiffness) there isn't really any reason to think it would be any less stable. So long as the steering pivot is inline with the tyre, and the joints don't have any flex to them, it's basically the same as if there were two forks.
Imme R100 r one of the most beautiful bikes that I have ever seen !!😍😍
Agreed. It would have been significantly more successful had the designer not pushed the single-sidedness one step too far:
He used a single bearing for the crankshaft of the engine which caused a high number of breakdowns during the warranty period leading ultimately to bankruptcy.
Other than that things looked good for Imme: Nearly twice the power of similar 100cc two strokes in a bike that weighed significantly less than the competition.
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 .....thanx for the info mate !! But , how is it possible to use a single bearing on the crakshaft !!??? The connecting rod needs a bearing on both of its sides as faar as I know !!!😥😥.
@@ampassionstruck9138 I guess the designer found that out too and it cost him his company.
@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 ...I guess the designer was obsessed with the word SINGLE !! Single sided swing arm, single sided front suspension , single bearing on the crank shaft !!!!😂😂😂😂....he might have been a miser man trying to save the input cost and increase the margins !!!😃😂😂.....jokes apart !! the bikes were extremely gorgeous !! 😍😍😘😘😘
@@ampassionstruck9138 You can have a single side (main) bearinged crankshaft which is known as a overhung crankshaft certainly in years gone by various companies/people have "flirted" with the idea (cost savings in manufacture), but the last time i've seen an overhung crank engine was in a petrol strimmer where speed of engine was more important than power output.
Thanks! This was really interesting! I had a single forked Vespa in the seventies! Levi in Sweden
More about the "Imme" and her developer in the book: "Norbert Riedel - Ein Ingenieursleben" Unfortunately only available in German, but with many beautiful pictures.
the arch/bone line looks like a singer sewing machine! niiiiiiiice!
The Swedish company Hägglund made a single sided fork and swing arm motorcycle for the Swedish army to try out called Motorcykel 358, pictures are available on the web but I haven't seen any videos other than of a version with a normal forks. Anyway rear and front wheels where interchangeable and the drive was encapsulated in the swing arm.
The 358 lost out to the Husqvarna 258 army which was an automatic off road bike (not variomatic but an actual 4 speed automatic) so it could be ridden in the winter with the optional skis attached not having to use your feet to change gears, look for "Husqvarna 258 in winter" to see how it works
You forgot about probably the most popular (at least where i live) bike with single sided front fork which is peugeot speedfight
Very Cool!
TRULY A WORK OF ART,,AND AS I TELL NONE OF ITS FORM EXEEDS FUNCTION !
Vespa applied their wartime experience with fighter plane landing gear to their front fork.
🤘😎🤘
Po dwóch...też...
Might just be me, but looks dangerous!
Me too, the only single sided front wheel bike I would touch would be the Vespa and that's because previously aluded to expertise with piagio aircraft. I don't like single swing arm either if anything btakes U R f--k-ed.
J'ai toujours été d'avis qu'une moto devrait avoir un maximum de 2 cylindres, ça suffit, personne n'a besoin de 4 cylindres et d'une vitesse de pointe de 250 km/h. La moto d'origine devrait revenir sur le devant de la scène