How about this engineering masterpiece?

[yeshoney]

 

[RocketeerRat]

That is too cool! any background on that gem?

 

[hotfoot]

Way cool. Do you know how the internals work? I'd like to see it torn apart.

 

[yeshoney]

I know nothing about it other than it is coming from Bastia, Italy.

To be honest I don't even know if it will accept a 26" wheel. Maybe i should have asked

Joe

 

[bairdco]

i almost bid on those. those would be awesome for a motorized bike, but i'm sure the shocks are as strong as the ones that (don't) hold up the hatch on my 1975 honda civic...

seriously, that's a cool design.

if you got 'em, let us know how they work. i could probably reverse engineer some with today's technology.

 

[jaydub]

They must be Spring loaded pretty cool about what year are they from????

 

[SSG]

Typically these just had spring dampening. For a moped they're not great, but they might be ok on a bicycle.

 

[hotfoot]

Well this got me thinking, I just might now have a use for the pile of old valve springs laying around at home...

 

[Tater]

Not bring this thread back from the dead, but did you ever get these and do something cool with them?

I'd like to see how you used them.