2011 Intense M9 FRO - owned from new and rebuilt
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Not sure of the exact material but I'm not concerned as it's only damping forces it's dealing with which, on a fork, are fairly low compared to if it was the spring side. I've had 3D parts made previously which have stood up to some fairly significant forces trying to pull them apart, and certainly far in excess of what this will be dealing with.
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Ahh, the mighty Quadra with early plastic. Perfection. Thing is, I get the concern, after all it's 'just plastic' but lots of forks have had plastic top caps over the years, even single sided 'modern' ones like the X-Vert Carbon which essentially had similar spring and damping rates to this 888, and not had issues. And that's spring side where the bottom out force with 50lb/in is 350lb, or 180kg (ish). In contrast damper side forces are pretty low even in rebound so it'll be absolutely fine. Bits like this have been fitted to numerous World Cup bikes over the years with zero issues. Even basic PLA has more than enough tensile strength with threads this size.
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Even as a young man I knew you DH lads were utterly nuts (meant in the highly respected way),, then YouTube confirmed it...
Yeah there is this thing called fear you know, its a normal reaction to rocketing down a hill at high speed
Anyways, what an amazing bit of bike history for a bike that was used as intended asn as much as I prefer non sun bike that was stunning in original colour and even more so with the oh so bright paint
Following with much interest.
And I still think there something wrong with you lot
Yeah there is this thing called fear you know, its a normal reaction to rocketing down a hill at high speed
Anyways, what an amazing bit of bike history for a bike that was used as intended asn as much as I prefer non sun bike that was stunning in original colour and even more so with the oh so bright paint
Following with much interest.
And I still think there something wrong with you lot
