Daft PACE question of the day

[markoc]

Right all you Pace afficionados, and engineery types:

As we all know PACE built frames out of box section - so why didn't they follow suit with their rigid forks that accompanied the early RC100's?

 

[Rich]

Ohh, that's a goody...not sure to tell you the truth, at a guess, cost of making and perhaps too harsh??

Don't think I've ever come across a set of square tubed forks eh?

Sure someone on here will give you an engineering type answer though

 

[Radar]

reaching into "the parents' answer to everything book"

...because





Sorry don't know.

 

[JeRkY]

I'll take a shot.

The square frame tubes were machined to remove material in low load baring planes. My guess is that the vector of the load on the forks is so variable that you would not be able to make decisions on where material could be removed as such the strongest shape to go with was good old circular section.

Also its much easier to make round holes in the crown for fork legs than it is square ones

 

[BoyBurning]

Don't be so bloody daft.

 

[Drencrom]

I always assumed it was because the early RC-30's were Reynolds 531, and for later versions, Columbus tubing. Would it not be that those manufacturers make round tubes first and foremost, so it was therefore the easiest (and relatively cheapest) way to produce the fork?

 

[mikee]

hmmm somthing to do next time i'm bored in the workshop

 

[suburbanreuben]

I always assumed it was because the early RC-30's were Reynolds 531, and for later versions, Columbus tubing. Would it not be that those manufacturers make round tubes first and foremost, so it was therefore the easiest (and relatively cheapest) way to produce the fork?

It would have been the best way to make a frame too... :roll:

 

[warpedboy2]

I was always under the impression that pace made their frames from box sections to because they had worked out that it was better for the loads/forces being placed upon the frames. If you look at the down tube, it is deeper than wide, making it stiff has hell over bumps (oo-er).

Round tubes flex in any direction, so making for a more comfortable ride.

But then again, i'm probably way off the mark....

 

[Rich]

It would have been the best way to make a frame too... :roll:

I'll come over and smack you leg young man!!! :shock: