Wednesday 9 September 2009

Who needs a sprung seat....




...when you`ve got a sprung hub?

Cool as found period custom `51 Thunderbird .
I like the way the skinnier than stock front tyre changes the stance .

6 comments:

  1. I still wake up in a cold sweat having had another nightmare about riding a sprung hub again.... whoever thought of that should be in the group thats first against the wall.....

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  2. Sorry to give you nightmares Rowan . Like the Slickshift gearboxes , those hubs seem to galvanize opinion! .
    I suppose, at the very worst, it was a clever way of offering rear suspension without a big re tooling cost.

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  3. think you hit the nail on the head when you consider what year they came out (late in the year too) and what others were doing

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  4. That seat has a nice look to it.
    Something tells me the sprung hub was a lot like the Amen Savior Frame?
    The springs kinda worked, you know, in reverse?

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  5. it was the wollowing about side to side that i remember with such vivid horror

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  6. Actually Richie , that set up with the stock tank and banana seat reminded me of a certain someones Triumph.
    Sounds like seasick tablets are in order Rowan , and clean underpants.

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