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Double telescoping shocks
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:16 pm
by Rainbow Warrior
Just thought a crazy idea to increase shock travel without length, how about joining 2 shocks together side by side, you had nearly the 1 shock length compressed but 2 shocks length extended?
Would require one of the shocks to be upside down, anybody tried it?
You could in effect get heaps of downward travel using standard height towers and even lock one set off somehow for road use or side angles.
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:30 am
by cbr
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:51 pm
by Rainbow Warrior
Sort of, though that would mean you'd be having one set compressing while the othe extends, could be really weird to drive on the road, I was thinking of basically clamping 2 shocks in the 69 position so they both extended or compressed together or a Z shaped bracket joining the bottom of one to the top of the otherwhile keeping them side by side.
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:22 pm
by toughnut
Must be a lot of mountain bikes running around with no rear shocks!
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:47 pm
by Slunnie
How well do the shocks last with the side loads and also using the body to carry these loads?
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:48 pm
by Rainbow Warrior
Slunnie wrote:How well do the shocks last with the side loads and also using the body to carry these loads?
Not sure, but even if you halved their life to double your travel many wouldn't care, you could probably get 2 standard travel shocks for the price of a super long travel version, then there's the modifications to fit them too, but you may have to move the mount to improve their centreing anyway, that's perhaps the reason for using 2 vs 1 in the pics above.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:08 pm
by muddyperils
For a BUGGY or a specialty off roader it would proberbly be a BUZ to play with, but to pass an EVIL engineers Cert. in this country I would not even consider it bacause of the BOTTOMING goings on....
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:32 pm
by FeroZul
toughnut wrote:Must be a lot of mountain bikes running around with no rear shocks!
Hahahaha
Either that or the driver loves his mountain biking.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:51 pm
by toughnut
I sent an email of to rock shox to see what they had to say. Havn't heard back yet.
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:20 pm
by spazbot
toughnut wrote:I sent an email of to rock shox to see what they had to say. Havn't heard back yet.
hope you reliase they is ranchos with a sticker
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:30 pm
by toughnut
Yeah just got an email back saying the same thing.
