Coedie said:
the only reason the bend so easy is because u made emmmm fukin 2 piece poles if it was all one it would be all good
WELDS DON'T BEND. METAL BENDS.
Something tells me you listened to KC's bitching a little too much when he was down in AUS because this is the same nonsense I have heard from more than enough people who have all talked to him because KC is trying to discredit my products to promote his own
dreams.
I am a welder, I do it all day everyday, that is my job. I know what is weak and I know what is strong and how to make it that way.
If welding two pieces of tubing together was the problem then the forks would be bending at the weld since you are saying that is the weak point YET not a single person has bent their forks at the weld because it is not possible! There is NO pressure on the section of fork tube that sits between the headsets and that is exactly where the weld is located for that exact reason. If you bend or break forks you either do it ABOVE the top headset cup OR BELOW the bottom headset cup but NEVER between the headset cups in the head tube which is where the this RUMORED "weak point" is which is just plain ridiculous.
The problem with the forks, as I have already said 10 times, is that the tubing is too thin. PERIOD. It is the exact same problem RAD had with their V1 bars. The weld is probably the strongest part on the entire forks because it has soo much extra material in it to strengthen it.
The original fork prototypes (that I have been riding for over 2 years now) were made the EXACT same way only the top tube had thicker walls.
When I put them into production I used thinner wall tubing because I thought the prototype was over kill. That was my mistake and I am fixing it. There is nothing wrong with the design or how they are made and half the people who have them love them and haven't had any problems.
Also, I love how KC likes to bad mouth my products by telling everyone why they suck and all the reasons why his are going to be better when the fact of the matter is he has never made ANYTHING and he is STILL riding MY forks. They must suck pretty bad right?
babboon jonny said:
nah its actually stonger the way he built them he just needs thicker tubing. with 2 pieces there is actaully less metal to bend. u know how you can snap a long stick easy but when the stick is smaller its harder to break same idea with the forks
Haha, hadn't thought about it that way but that is something to think about! All I know is thicker wall tubing will solve the problem, end of story.
farmboy UK said:
about the V2s, the forktube is longer?metal is thicker?
Yes.
