Follow the rake/trail rules and it is about as simple front end as you can hope to build. Use decent bushings in the four links and good pivot shafts or bolts and you can't go wrong. Stick in a hydraulic coil over shock or vintage friction shocks and you have something unique and very functional. If you hunt around and locate an old Indian vintage girder, it hardly gets simpler than that. and the related forum is a gold mine of drawings and info on girders. If all the bearings check out and the bushings/bolts are OK, Id dis-assemble the whole thing and lay it on a flat surface. As stated above, check the bushings and bolts for fit. Unequal arms causes the axle to arc in motion, causing variable trail.which can be interesting under accel/decel conditions (you are warned). Dixie Choppers 85 6 I run girder front ends on both chops. Not only did he kick the neck out to a 45-degree rake, he also tossed the shocks and transformed the back end into a rigid like youРІР‚в„ўd expect to see on an old chop in the 1970s. One issue I see with the example picture above is the longer lower four link arms. John went after long and lean for this chopper, with copious amounts of classic tossed into the mix. A lot of fine bike parts come off of a band saw and drill press (drill and sand). You definately do not need CNC work to make parts for a girder (nothing wrong with CNC parts, but it is too much tech for such simple parts).

The original question seemed pretty basic for someone so well equipt.Р”Р„ girder is a simple and elegant design, light and very functional at radical rake and extensions (as opposed to the typical extended hydraulic front end). When I'm done, I don't want someone to walk by my bike and say, 'Hey I saw that part in ''who evers'' catalogue' or 'My buddy has those same ''what evers'' on his bike, where did you buy yours?' I just want my bike to be as much one off and 'made by me' (or some of my buds) as possible. I am going to have the dog bones and trees cut with a cnc machine and I am going to make the legs. I just need to read up on girders to see about the angles and what not. In my line of work, if you can't get what you need, you make it (specialty tools, brackets, mounts, some parts.ect). I have good metal working skills and an abundance of tools and recources. She studied the works of Sigmund Freud and attributed her interest in witchcraft to the influence of her friend, the detective novelist Helen Simpson.Don't fret MechWerks.

In fact many experts believe that Girders, or their derivatives, will eventually be the ideal front suspension design used on all cycles in the future. She graduated in history from University College London and in 1921 began her long career as a teacher. As mentioned elsewhere Girder forks are probably the best front-end suspension system ever invented. Gladys Maude Winifred Mitchell РІР‚вЂњ or РІР‚ВThe Great GladysРІР‚в„ў as Philip Larkin called her РІР‚вЂњ was born in 1901, in Cowley in Oxfordshire. Comes complete with steering stop, and 3/4' axle. We use DOM seamless tubing for the front legs, and triple plate it to perfection. All of the components are precision CNC machined from billet steel bar stock. But the thirteenth guest never arrives, and his headless body is discovered in a wood the next day.Р”Р‡ortunately, numbered among the original dinner guests is a rather extraordinary psychoanalyst, and amateur detective, by the name of Mrs Bradley. The Girder spitfire Home The Spitfire Girder front end is made from pure American Steel, right here in our shop in California USA. It seems theyРІР‚в„ўve been invited as a necessity by the superstitious lady of the house, to avoid thirteen guests sitting down to dinner. When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English countryside, stop at a country house to ask for directions, they are most astonished to be ushered in to dinner.

Chopper girder front end