DIY suspension help

matbici · Dec 16, 2010

Hello, I have an old racing bike, in the future i´m planing putting an electric motor, so I need a shock absorber system, haven´t found a suspension neither for front or rear wheels for this kind of bikes, so I thought of creating it miself, the main problem is that I don´t know where or what to do, never done this before, that´s why I need some help, guiding, ideas, etc. Anything can help.
I would like to keep the original forks if possible. Can I add a suspension to this forks ?

I´ll wait for your answers.

Matias.

scotto- · Dec 16, 2010

matbici said:
Hello, I have an old racing bike, in the future i´m planing putting an electric motor, so I need a shock absorber system, haven´t found a suspension neither for front or rear wheels for this kind of bikes, so I thought of creating it miself, the main problem is that I don´t know where or what to do, never done this before, that´s why I need some help, guiding, ideas, etc. Anything can help.
I would like to keep the original forks if possible. Can I add a suspension to this forks ?

I´ll wait for your answers.

Matias.

Welcome to the forum Matias!

I would have too see your forks to answer your last question. Here is a set I'm working on at the moment, this is a mock-up of how it's going to be. Just have to make the upper shock brackets, the pivots and then weld it all up. It will look a lot nicer when it's finished.

professor · Dec 16, 2010

A suspension seat post will help a lot too.

Goat Herder · Dec 16, 2010

As for rear suspension. Just remember that the pivot point for rear sus needs to be between the motor chain to make a chain stay on and behave. As for materials can't really help there. B.M.X. bottom brackets might work though.

Something I did a long time ago... http://motorbicycling.com/f47/morini-time-full-sus-project-9048-2.html

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