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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Flash Fork Blades
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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 20388" data-attributes="member: 456"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The girdraulic fork blades are remarkably strong. Many years ago, about 46 - 48 at a guess, I had an old child adult chair on the side of a Rapide. I did not have a car at the time and I used the chair for collecting fuel for the stove in the caravan in which I lived, the local coal merchant having refused to deliver to anything as humble as a caravan. One evening I was returning from the local Club night with a young lady in the chair and was chasing two friends on solos. All was well until I got to a left hander on which I drifted outwards until the handlebars snagged the thorn hedge on the wrong side of the road. I remember going upside down with my face dragging through the thorn hedge and ended up about 50 feet out across the field on the other side of the hedge. The lady in question was ejected straight through the body of the fabric and wood chair which had four inch nails in the frame holding it together. She also ended up about 60 feet down the road while all the spare nuts, bolts etc., which had been in the boot of the chair, were scattered about 100 yards down the road. It looked pretty much like an air crash in the dark Eventually the two solo based chums realised that I was no longer with them, came back, went and fetched another Vincent chum who had a van and got the bike back home and me and said lady to hospital. The impact had been so strong that the front wheel was jammed between the bike and what was left of the chair, roughly where the rear brake pedal is. The bottom link had given up the struggle completely and had bent so that it had allowed the bottom end of the forks and the badly damaged front wheel to take up their new position. Sometime later, I got round to measuring the fork blades, which seemed to be untouched, with a straight edge. The bottom hole for the wheel spindle was about 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch out of line and those blades were in use for many years after with no problems. Believe me chaps, those blades are strong.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">As a happy end to this tale, the lady in question still speaks to me.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 20388, member: 456"] [FONT=Tahoma]The girdraulic fork blades are remarkably strong. Many years ago, about 46 - 48 at a guess, I had an old child adult chair on the side of a Rapide. I did not have a car at the time and I used the chair for collecting fuel for the stove in the caravan in which I lived, the local coal merchant having refused to deliver to anything as humble as a caravan. One evening I was returning from the local Club night with a young lady in the chair and was chasing two friends on solos. All was well until I got to a left hander on which I drifted outwards until the handlebars snagged the thorn hedge on the wrong side of the road. I remember going upside down with my face dragging through the thorn hedge and ended up about 50 feet out across the field on the other side of the hedge. The lady in question was ejected straight through the body of the fabric and wood chair which had four inch nails in the frame holding it together. She also ended up about 60 feet down the road while all the spare nuts, bolts etc., which had been in the boot of the chair, were scattered about 100 yards down the road. It looked pretty much like an air crash in the dark Eventually the two solo based chums realised that I was no longer with them, came back, went and fetched another Vincent chum who had a van and got the bike back home and me and said lady to hospital. The impact had been so strong that the front wheel was jammed between the bike and what was left of the chair, roughly where the rear brake pedal is. The bottom link had given up the struggle completely and had bent so that it had allowed the bottom end of the forks and the badly damaged front wheel to take up their new position. Sometime later, I got round to measuring the fork blades, which seemed to be untouched, with a straight edge. The bottom hole for the wheel spindle was about 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch out of line and those blades were in use for many years after with no problems. Believe me chaps, those blades are strong.[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]As a happy end to this tale, the lady in question still speaks to me.[/FONT] [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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