Re: 350 Forza front fork surprise
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2025 10:06 am
Interesting indeed! But its a compromise which is halfway to being crowded but uses what is presumably a nylon cage just to make it much easier to assemble without fiddling around with the half grease/half glue that they used years ago.Orcadian wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:04 pm That's interesting Roadster,
Looking at the drawing on this manual download I got, the bearings are actually caged balls, so almost the worst of both worlds! Point loading from a ball, as the ball radius is less than the race radius rather than a line from a taper - AND a cage!
I still have a feeling that the design received more influence from accountants than engineers.
Ian
