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Was chatting with a mate about folding bikes, and happened to come across this, the Pantour front suspension hub...
http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/html/pantour_hubs.shtml
http://www.pantourhub.com/products.html
How cool is that!? Would have to be a required ingredient for the 'perfect' comfy commuting bike.. very pricey though.
I'm still not sure how it doesn't foul up the brake calipers though 😕 but a very nifty idea nonetheless.
[quote="rek"]Was chatting with a mate about folding bikes, and happened to come across this, the Pantour front suspension hub...
Very inovative,the front hub is more pricey than average,front sus,the rear would be an aswer to creating duel sus,but as you say how the heck do break calipers work?also on the rear wheel option are you not going to pick up problems with varing chain slackness?😕
It could be that the part where the disc or cassette is, doesn't move? But the hub itself does...
It should be possible like that since you are clamping everything with a skewer.
Check out the little animations of the front wheel. You can see the hub moving itself, but then there is something over it that stays with the dropout and skewer.
Just bring back the Girvin Flexstem in a road version. That's mechanically a lot simpler and probably lighter.
Ah yes, what's old is new again....
Stewart Warner tried this in the late 30's...
http://nostalgic.net/arc/parts/Stewart%20Warner%20Floating%20Hub%201.jpg
And what happens in a couple of years when you want new elastomers?
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