Rigid Girdraulics?

[bmetcalf]

Drilled blades and no springs on a Triumph !

http://www.jockeyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1655825&postcount=4423

 

[Martyn Goodwin]

Does not look like a runner to me - no brakes. Is it possibly a show bike/mock up?

 

[Nulli Secundus]

Does not look like a runner to me - no brakes. Is it possibly a show bike/mock up?

Yes, if you navigate to page 221 post #4409 the owner says as much.

 

[davidd]

I did not go to page 221, but a gentleman named Bob Scharf from Ypsilanti, Michigan used to do this to all of his machines:

So, there should be a lot of these around somewhere.

David

 

[highbury731]

Does not look like a runner to me - no brakes. Is it possibly a show bike/mock up?

And the brake lugs have been cut off the fork legs, so brakes can't be fitted to these forks

 

[bmetcalf]

Come to think of it, George Emmerich had a set of drilled blades hanging in his basement.

 

[Little Honda]

I did not go to page 221, but a gentleman named Bob Scharf from Ypsilanti, Michigan used to do this to all of his machines:

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So, there should be a lot of these around somewhere.

David

why didn´t he hole the tank?

 

[Whiteshadow15]

Come to think of it, George Emmerich had a set of drilled blades hanging in his basement.

They are pretty neat.

 

[vibrac]

Words fail me (for once ! )

 

[Peter Holmes]

I think I prefer the rather more understated lightening or lightning (take your pick) solution for the Girdraulic fork blades, but is it dangerous, I had a pretty big T bone crash at 40mph with a "I did not see coming" elderly female driver, but never the less still claimed I was going far to fast, even though she had not seen me, go figure!, but I digress, the only part of the fork blades that bent were at the very thinest part right at the top of the blade, it would appear that due to the limitations of material dimensions they are not drilled there, still don't like it though, if it was any good I would have thought Patrick Godet would have tried it on his fabulous Isle of Man Grey Flashes, would it have got him the first Vincent 100mph lap, he was very very close to it.