IRD full suspension bike

[FirstFlight]

Can't remember if I had posted this one or not. Pretty sketchy engineering? The cable around the bottom bracket is pretty scary and is already wearing into the tubing.

It would be really cool to have more IRD parts on the bike (fork, stem, post, brake) and we'll try to add them as we find them.

And the makers mark:

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

That cabling is absolutely appalling!

 

[retrojon]

What is the cable for?

 

[cherrybomb]

What is the cable for?

Looks like the bottom mount for the elastomer 'pull' shock! :shock:

 

[shovelon]

Wacky, but brilliant! :shock:

 

[theboy]

Rod's a genius, but that looks like a back-of-a-fag-packet design to me.

 

[Void(EN12-82)]

Cool bike... remember the review in an old MBA magazine, they liked the bike very much. I think it was in some '93 full suspension bike lineup.

 

[FirstFlight]

Few more pictures @ http://www.mombat.org/1992_IRD_FS.htm
Might help understand it better.