Disc brakes are dead

Yup

Lol, thought i was in the proper disc brake thread. Cheers though!

Where r u?

A. Yes.
B. Depends how careful you are.

Mg fork is a homage to my BMW gangsta of many years ago. It has no compliance in and of itself, but with higher volume road tyres it is a comfortable ride. (@Ecobeard can attest). This goes to show the benefits of tyre choice, not my frame building prowess.

It weighs a tonne, it takes a horrendous amount of time to make, but...

1. All the internal routing/bosses etc that you could need.
   
2. Son wireless dynamo connectors are possible.
   
3. Looks banging (obvs imo).
   
   

For almost all applications there is a carbon fork that will work, the only time this isn't true is dynamos. We were going to make our own carbon fork, but the move stole all. Our money...

For clarity, Amey has now become Scoble v2, is this correct? A Scoble homage.

Thanks for the input, honest as always. I obviously knew about the BMW inspiration but wanted a frame builder's take on the subject. I'm not questioning steel disc forks have their use (especially when they have all the trimmings), yet you have confirmed my views that they are always a compromise in one way or another.

A scoblage.

They have their place, but carbon is a great material for a fork, whatever Richard Sachs says...

More like a second prophet

Which makes this thread the Book of Amey.

If a person wanted a compliant steel fork with straight legs would twin plate (with thin plates for vertical flex) not be the way to go? Working on the same principle as a Lauf fork or leaf suspension or whatever. Stiff in the coplanar directions and flexy normal to the plates.

I reckon you could make one cheaply from food cans. Report back once done.

May get different levels of rebound changing foods. Soup for rocks, meatballs for gravel.

Same idea. But just do it at the fork crown instead of that filth.

Edit: I question the sanity of designing a fork around the aesthetics of straight legs, if that's the idea. But this thread is probably not the place for sanity so don't let me stop you.

That's what the MG is, hence my question.

It has no compliance in and of itself.

I'd like to see a drawing. Could be a workaround at discs and (non)compliance. The deathsplosion forks above look pretty awesome to me 😅

Oh I see, I thought it looked like the one on the previous page. I am sure with more, thinner plates, wider-spaced legs, forward extension instead of angled legs, removing some parts of the extended steerer tube, etc. it could be made more compliant. But that's just even more work for the unfortunate builder who ends up building this.

If I was less busy and had any idea what I was talking about I would give it a go. I'm sure some smarter people have come up with the idea before.

Basically this:

but replace the horizontal tubes with as many thin plates as you can be arsed to weld/shape/etc. If he's paying someone for a custom fork and wants to get nuts you could also have a double crown or do a Lefty version or something.

(actually dynamo routing is the whole point so Lefty is probably not the way to go lol)

Aye, I don't think it's a new idea. The thinner the plates and the bigger the distance between the steerer and legs the flexier it will be. but compare that one with one Heldring posted or to a Lauf fork and it looks pretty bloody stiff to me.

You would have to talk to an engineer to figure out the details, or get a frame builder to build a bunch of them to get the compliance right. Too much and it'll be a floppy POS.

an engineer

On principle I only speak to artisans

I just had a eureka moment. Truss forks. They're curved and skinny tubed, so they should be comfortable enough, and the design should take care of the fore and aft flex. Plus, Ted James can make you some in Ti.

The forum won't, but you'll thank me later.