I am in the process of building up a flatbed hack. I'd like leading link forks as I think it will be handy to preload the front shocks as per the load. I have also been wondering about air shocks for the hack. I'm finding it difficult to find LL forks for less than $2000 and was wondering if Ural forks might work.. R27
I would not run a Ural leading link. The newer ones I am told are much better, I mounted one around 1995 or so long before I was in the business onto my wife's Moto Guzzi Eldorado. It would not have been much more work to have built from scratch. The front end would dart all over the road at speed as rather then using bushings or bearings for the pivots it has rubber bushings. Tube diameter is odd and the top of the tubes are tapered, the shocks were of very poor quality.
We build leading links (not for the R27) there is a reason that they cost what they do, safety must come first and leading links are a lot more complex then they look.
Jay G
DMC sidecars
www.dmcsidecars.com
866-638-1793
After I pushed since 2004 a Jawa-Velorex with original tough telescopic suspension, I got last summer an Ural Patrol and definitely expected a much softer steering from all the talking about power like steering. It appears to me that Ural front suspension is intentionally longer levered for to force slower driving.
Perhaps in a couple of days I might get the comparative ride on to a BMW R60-Steib.
Sven
