Comment by jonas21
15 days ago
If that's the case, how do bikes like this work?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Huffy-26-inch-Rock-Creek-Men-s-Mo...
(apologies if I'm misunderstanding).
15 days ago
If that's the case, how do bikes like this work?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Huffy-26-inch-Rock-Creek-Men-s-Mo...
(apologies if I'm misunderstanding).
See my post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50084268
Whether having zero offset or not isn't what matter in the end, but the trail. And you can achieve that with little offset as long as the fork is angled.
(so the grandparent is a bit right in their critique, but not for the reason stated)
The front axle is in front of the fork in that photo.
It looks exactly like the images the model generated. The fork certainly doesn't bend forward -- it's perfectly straight.
At the place where it splits in two it also goes shifts forwards a bit