Beeweldmut
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I've seen these a couple times lately. Are they forks that get shortened? What are they called? Anything I can guess is too generic is to google.
What are these shocks?
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Beeweldmut
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Why's it gotta be ghetto? That's as long as the internals, travel, or spring needs to be. Now if it's just a cutoff fork holding a cutoff spring then, yeah it's ghetto. But I have seen this on a few legitimate builders bikes, so I'm sure there is a way to do it right.
dualitymike
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Looks like front shocks from a scooter. They look like front motorcycle forks but are much shorter because a scooter wheel is much smaller. Do a google search for something like "scooter, front fork, front shock absorber" and see what comes up.
Beeweldmut
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So they don't really have a special name, just a style of air shock. I like the no spring look. I have a bent set of inverted ohlins. I wonder if I could cut them down to make a shock.
Beeweldmut
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Would have to be a lot shorter than that. I want to go with a mono shock for my next build so I doubt I can get a spring heavy enough to work, but I'll keep the idea in mind for another day.
How are you supposed to rail through a rut at unadilla with that crap hanging off the back end?xb33bsa said:you could try, as part of the design front forks have a lot of internal overlap
and the damping is done with a long ass cartridge so it will be a huge amount of work
back in the day the harley factory mx bikes tried a set of highly modified forks in the rear
