A brief history of forks

When telescopic forks first appeared on a Scott in 1908 they were regarded with deep suspicions by traditionalists brought up on girder and springer front ends. Quirky Danish company Nimbus used telescopic forks on its inline four in 1934 just one year ahead of BMW who upped the game with by adding hydraulically damping. The German firm certainly improved the set up and then AMC copied the idea and updated the concept calling it Teledraulic. Those systems were in essence fairly basic in nature yet the telescopic fork was adopted more for ease and cheapness of manufacture than any other reason. Despite its well-known failings the telescopic forks still continue to be the weapons of choice for most manufacturers. With so much time and investment that’s gone into them they’re going to be here for the foreseeable and, to be frank, they do a damn fine job. If you want to see exactly what emulators do the technology is best explained by visiting Race Tech’s page http://www.racetech.com/page/ title/emulators-how%20they%20 Work