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Have you seen the bike Brendan will be riding this year? Bizarre linkage set-up that I can't even follow. What pushes/pulls what?
Bigger picture here - http://www.pinkbike.com/news/scott-gambler-downhill-bike-prototype.html
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Really you can't figure that one out?
It's pretty straight forwards; single pivot with a staggered link to actuate the (quite big looking) shock, simples
Looks OK maybe a bit fussy with the link, but I'm sure it serves a purpose...
That is low, long and slack as anything; it's definitely a racer's bike through and through.
I can see that the vertical link gets pulled down, but what does the horizontal link do?
Where would the bottle cage go?
iDave - you could fix one on each side on those goldy-lookin tubes above where the front wheel is
Dropper on a DH race bike....
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Dropper on a DH race bike....
its coz of the long pedally bit in the middle of the south african track, i think everyone will probably be running one
I did wonder if someone would try out at least some 650b wheels on the pmb track!?
Stops the swingarm battering through the down tube ?what does the horizontal link do?
(maybe does something REALLY clever to leverage ratios too but I don't get that shit at all)
Good point, Kimbers. Track specific, I suppose.
Lots of talk around of this being a complicated linkage. Nothing could be further from the truth. The floating link attached to the swingarm simply pulls on the shock, compressing it. The horizontal link is necessary to constrain the degrees of freedom, otherwise the shock would flap around uselessly.
Its no more complicated than any other linkage driven single pivot but this arrangement of links brings with it some nice advantages.