Rake adjustment

[Guth_imp]

^I'm pretty sure he understands that, as we previously discussed the rotating frame concept. But to answer his original question...the only way to do this is fabricating a custom triple tree (and to over-engineer the hell out it, for safety's sake).

Searching for a one as a manufactured product is without doubt a wild goose chase.

Forget about rotating centers of gravity (can a point in space rotate?), Patterson computer models, moments, dynamics, and everything else. We can't even get even a simple illustration drawn on paper with a simple diagram. This would at least show what this monster would look like and perhaps show if the geometry in question is possible. Valid comments are ignored and its the same thing repeated page after page. The whole concept is bogus and this thread is going nowhere.

Deanohh, if this is really bothering you, the simplest solution would be to step out of the thread. Intermixed in all of the posts is a fair amount of interesting information. People can choose to do with it what they wish.

The thing that I would wonder about the proposed triple clamp system is the impact on geometry when the bars are turned. As the fork tubes would no longer be rotating parallel to the head tube, the tire's point of contact would be thrown off-center whenever the bars aren't pointed exactly straight.

In other words, with the bars straight, the front wheel is pulled back X inches. When turned, the front wheel is going to shift to the left or the right by some percentage of X, which isn't the case when the fork tubes are parallel to the head tube. Or so I think anyway.

Guth