I cant believe no one replied to this...wow that's ugly...are those bungle cords from the rear lever going up to the headset???I've never had the privilege of seeing one of these disasters in person...great find...lol
Not sure I trust stuff so close to the tire as failure can lead to very abrupt stops.
Hard to tell from the picture what it is really. Yep looks like bungee cord material.
I'm not going to make one, but I sometimes think some sort of cheap rubber mounting bush could feature in a leading or trailing link design. Here's a page of different rubber mounts.
None of those forks are like the first one with bunjies wrapped around the headset!!!! Big difference....i just want to see this first fork(thread starter) in person, its fantastically ugly!