Info needed on a "Lotus" bike.
- Thread starter paulh7830
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The damper looks like painted aluminum from here, there looks to be scratches on it that go through the surface finish.
It looks like the frame suffered flex between the front and rear triangle, as such they bodged on the L bracket between top and seat tube and slotted the rear of the shock mount to align on it. This suggests a maximum of what?, 1" travel before the rear would compress, flex, then lock out against the bracket. That also goes to suggest the rear canti hanger isn't a shop bolt on, but simply the travel of the rear triangle is so short that the hanger wouldn't interfere. The extremely short travel is also backed up by the spring which must have a working length only a fraction shorter than it's free length.... Hardly a downhill bike level of travel, I'd get more travel out of the rear end of my carbon monocoque Lotus hard tail.
Would love to see some photos of the hard tail frames you got, and I hope the disappointment that the two FS frames will be offset by them.
It looks like the frame suffered flex between the front and rear triangle, as such they bodged on the L bracket between top and seat tube and slotted the rear of the shock mount to align on it. This suggests a maximum of what?, 1" travel before the rear would compress, flex, then lock out against the bracket. That also goes to suggest the rear canti hanger isn't a shop bolt on, but simply the travel of the rear triangle is so short that the hanger wouldn't interfere. The extremely short travel is also backed up by the spring which must have a working length only a fraction shorter than it's free length.... Hardly a downhill bike level of travel, I'd get more travel out of the rear end of my carbon monocoque Lotus hard tail.
Would love to see some photos of the hard tail frames you got, and I hope the disappointment that the two FS frames will be offset by them.
