Nope it's just the yanks, we spent several hundred Years teaching the world to speak proper English, and the septics have mucked it up. As far as I'm concerned they are fork yokes always have been always will. I mean who wants to ride about on tires, and as far as I am concerned a fender is something you hang off the side of a boat, to name just a few. However it does cause some strange looks when you tell them you are going outside to smoke a fag.
-- Edited by gaschef on Saturday 3rd of August 2013 03:55:37 PM
-- Edited by gaschef on Saturday 3rd of August 2013 03:56:33 PM
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Sadly much of their English is actually our old english!! - "gotten" for example, and its us that added the extra letter to aluminum to make it sound more scientific
I'd also heard that the guys over the pond had a truer version of our mother tongue, but it is nice to feel superior to someone (no matter how inaccurate we are) and as for smoking a fag, well I dare say in the deep south (and I don't mean South Hams) I reckon someone popping a cap in a fag might well go as a fair pastime.
God Bless America (someone needs to) and hey they are probably monitoring this anyway lol.
Always thought triple clamps have 3 bolts holding lower yokes onto forks.
Usually with just 2 bolts most riders overtighten and cause the fork internals to get squashed.
Conventionally, the fork stanchions are at the top, clamped to a triple tree (also called a triple clamp) (US) , (called a yoke in UK), and the sliders are at the bottom, attached to the front wheel spindle.. On some modern sport bikes and most off-road bikes, this system is inverted, with "sliders" (complete with the spring/damper unit) at the top, clamped to the yoke, while the stanchions are at the bottom . This is done (i) to reduce unsprung weight by having the lighter components suspended, and (ii) to improve the strength and rigidity of the assembly by having the strong large-diameter "sliders" clamped in the yokes.[2] The inverted system is referred to as an upside-down fork, or "USD" for short. A disadvantage of this USD design is that the entire reservoir of damping oil is above the slider seal so that, if the slider seal were to leak, the oil could drain out, rendering any damping ineffective.
It's an Americanism on our Yoke.
But as I said, I have triple clamps, with 3 bolts............
