Comments on: Yamaha R1 Girder Front Suspension

By: B. Case

B. Case — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:59:51 +0000

Uh, Tom…that’s a bicycle.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:35:12 +0000

Here’s another take on girder forks; versions of these have been in production for about ten years now:

http://www.2-wheel.com/moulton/d_pylon/d_pylon_slv_comp.jpg

Tom

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:34:50 +0000

I had never herd of knee slider until I was informed that you guys were hashing over the good and the bad of the girder that I have a Mfg agreement with RMD, I will for sure come back to this site its a very good platform. Here is a couple of things that will clear things up abit first, I have been following the work that Jason and RMD have been doing on the R1 and although we came out and our first customer was rodger Goldammer for salt flats Tv this project is by far the most exciting I hope to conqure many fitments that I feel have merit also the first ones were built out of thin wall chrome moly tubing with solid bulkheads at the at the atachment points this was only a pound or two lighter but very labor intensive and the fallout was more then I could stand, now it is extruded 6061 piece and we are working on a Iso grid pattern that will be lighter then the thinwall and stronger ,also the upper and lower control arm feature adj for trail tuning and controling some of the dive features some of you have asked about and I appricate any imput I get from this most people who have considered them have been for over built barges that will never really put these things to work and I too belive that Jasons bike fall in a new and growing market hyper street fighter

By: hoyt

hoyt — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:34:32 +0000

“Taxman, yeeaaah, I’m the taxman…”

I agree.

As much as I like the look of the R1 with this front-end, and as much as I like the look of the beefy Ohlins front-end on Curt Winter’s black Big Twin bike, I’d like to see the BTR with this front-end too.

By: taxman

taxman — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:38:49 +0000

if you go to RMD’s website they have the girder front end for sale for $3500. currently only for aftermarket frames though. a set of forks alone on ebay range from $1-6k. so if you wanted something different this would be fairly similarly priced. at least it seems so from the little looking i did. to me the front end on the wraith looks to much. this looks a lot nicer. i think it’s the more compact look of the forks on this one that make me like it more. i’d love to put this on the front of my bike.