Bleeuuurgh

makes the Whyte PRST-1 look positively photogenic.

Weighs in at a sprightly 33lbs

That needs a Ram’s skull strapped to the fork legs.

That xx1 looks gopping! 😉

What problem is it trying to resolve?

Is it being able to crush beer cans for recycling whilst cycling?

What problem is it trying to resolve?

Someone probably asked: “What’s the highest number of pivot bearings we can get on a single bicycle?”

Does that steering actually turn?
Or is it one of those idiotic downhill speed record attempt bikes?

Spherical bearing allows you to turn

Speshpaul – Member
What problem is it trying to resolve?

They’ve managed 7″ of travel on a 29er – 33lbs for a 7″ bike isn’t bad, especially one with big wheels. And the complicated linkage looks like it prevents the wheel tucking under as much as possible.

Right. That’s about as nice as I can be about it. It’s horrific looking, and painted in extra-horrific colours to drive that point home. And 7″ of travel out of a tiny DT shock? Must be a mental leverage ration.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should!

If it works why not? There’s no for to service.
It’s a bit unconventional but if it rides ok I’d have one.

Haha why not! I saw a guy riding a PRST-1 once on Wimbledon Common, he looked very embarrassed!!

Ouch – looks like the suspension is linked, but isn’t. This was better:

Saracen Full-suspension Prototype by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

Gaaaaargh! I just put ‘PRST-1’ into google images and it came up with this:

And you felt the need to SHARE??

*BOKE*

Always good to share the wealth 😉

Ok what’s more puke inducing, bike or finger?

The linked suspension thing has been done many times. Here’s Muddy Fox’s Intereactive

And a whole thread on them here: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=48962

EDIT – just looked at the Bikerumor article – so it’s not even linked so they’ve just got loads of metalwork without even the excuse of that…

Lauf 29er. Carbon 60mm leaf spring suspension fork, sub 1kilo..

dont worry they have it in a different colour

theres actually 2 rear shocks in there?

and

180mm travel
Fork is integrated into frame
Spherical bearing allows you to turn
29″ front wheel
27.5″ rear wheel
7075 aluminum

Phew! At least that one isn’t gopping!

Oh, wait…

supposedly an anti-dive thing under hard braking.

The second picture of the blue/yellow bike somehow manages to look worse than the initial picture!