![]() Black Shadows were good for about 200km/h. One of the last machines to use it was the 1950s Superbike, the Vincent Black Shadow. It was easy to manufacture, and could be engineered to provide reasonable performance. ![]() It sported a pair of forks just like a bicycle, but hung them off the top tree on four links so they could have a spring (and later a damper) controlling the movement. The first type of motorcycle front suspension was the girder fork. And some of them set to work on designing some machinery to fix this. And they saw that it was indeed better, except that it was bloody uncomfortable and it didn’t handle corners and bumps and things very well, and imagine how fast you could go and how much fun it would be if it did. Then they saw that the only thing better than adding a small internal combustion engine to the bicycle was adding a large internal combustion engine to the bicycle. And then some guys saw fit to add a small internal combustion engine to the bicycle. And about the same time was the internal combustion engine. By Al HISTORY OF THE FRONT END – PART I THE GIRDER FORK
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