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A good guide in engineering is that you shouldnt make thing more complicated then necessary.
In bicycledesign the constructions around the front and rear wheel have always looked unnecessary complicated, and in the desire to simplify that construction the singlesided suspension of the wheels has a certain attractiveness to it. The numerous attempts to achieve simple constructions with singlesided suspension endorse that I think. The problem with singlesided suspension until now has been that the construction still needed to guided around the wheel itself, still compromising the simplicity of the construction, because it requires bends and joints.
The novelty of the No-Fork is that it has its wheels in an angle to the frame, removing the necessity for the forks to be constructed around the wheels, allowing for the most simple construction: a single straight tube. Cant get any simpler then that.
But, as is often the case with innovation, there is an old generation that has grown satisfied with the limitations of historical engineering... often it is also hard to discuss with these people, so we might better leave them to it. They will conform later on... for now we can probably satisfy them best with ancient engineering...