Dan81 Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 ...anyone got this? like the fact it's steel, glossy and has a rh disc mount....(does this affect performance or just the same?)...anyone got it or thoughts on it? (don't see many on bike pics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 The front facing disc idea seems interesting, but I get the impression that the shearing stresses that the disc is going to have on the disc mount will be too much for the disc mount-without-the-rigidity-of-the-fork-leg to take if you get me. In laymens terms it would break off BUT im sure pashley anticipated this reaction and hence have tested the fork to happy results, otherwise it wouldn't be on sale.Try it and let us know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Gibbs Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 From what i have read into this idea is that the disc mount facing forward is that it puts less stress on the welds, despite that it would appear to do the opposite! If you look at moto trials bikes all the front disc mounts face forward and they are put under far more stress and load and they appear solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe' Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Forward facing mounts are to stop the axle being pulled out of the dropout when braking hard.As the caliper is forward facing , when braking, the axle gets pushed into the dropout.Thats the theory Pashley went buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan81 Posted May 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 the brake idea makes sense, anyone got them though? just wondered what they're like to ride with....im right footed so it makes sense to have the disc on that side....wierd how no-one else has tried this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Vandart Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Having the mount on the front of the fork would take advantage of the tensile properties of cro mo, not shear.Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Balls Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 can you explain that comment...? everything comes back to shear.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Tim Stedman's been using them with no problems (iirc), so i highly doubt you'd have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Tim Stedman's been using them with no problems (iirc), so i highly doubt you'd have any.tim's running disc? :o :othe dropout thing makes sense actually, maybe giving better braking too? I dunno.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Vandart Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 can you explain that comment...? everything comes back to shear..It may well all come back to shear, and in this statement you can see that it is using the advantages of the tensile properties of cro-mo.The effects of shear forces will be there in both situations, Disc mounted on the back, mostly compressive forces on the disc mount.Disc mounted on the front, mostly tensile forces on the disc mount.As you have stated the shear forces are present in both situations and there fore the main difference between mounting the post on the back or front is whether the forces are mainly compressive and tensile.Blah, blah, blah.......................Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 tim's running disc? :o :oAhhhh nuts, thats a point Either way, it'll be fine, pashley know their stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceman Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Well I'm getting the Pashley disc fork in a month's, hopefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-A Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Skoze is right. Tim ran a front disk for quite a while with the right hand disk set-up. He's gone back to maggie now though. Tim rode the forks for a good while with no problems. He them gave them to Matt Burrows, who broke them fairly quickly. They broke above the disk mount so extra stress to the welds was not a problem. Matt does tends to mash forks.... I cant see them being any weaker than normal Pashley forks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Skoze is right. Tim ran a front disk for quite a while with the right hand disk set-up. He's gone back to maggie now though. Tim rode the forks for a good while with no problems. He them gave them to Matt Burrows, who broke them fairly quickly. They broke above the disk mount so extra stress to the welds was not a problem. Matt does tends to mash forks.... I cant see them being any weaker than normal Pashley forks.understatement of the year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Burrows Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Shhhhh, I am Mr smooth!Yeah I did break a set, but they were prototype forks with a short disc mount. Tim had been running them for months as well so it wasn't like they broke quickly. But for the money, they are pretty damn good forks. People have been running the non disc forks for years and they have a great reputation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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