Landing Gear

[Lou Parker]

Has anyone had experience building landing gear from motorcycle forks?

[George A. Graham]

On 10 Apr 2004, Lou Parker wrote:

> Has anyone had experience building landing gear from motorcycle forks?

The good news Lou, is that you don't need anything that complicated.
A very small bit of time is spent rolling on the ground. Some gear
use only the tires to absorb the landing loads.

Keep it simple, and light.

George Graham
RX-7 Powered Graham-EZ, N4449E
Homepage <http://bfn.org/~ca266>

[Veeduber]

>On 10 Apr 2004, Lou Parker wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had experience building landing gear from motorcycle forks?
>

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Dear Lou,

Sure. Lotsa folks. See Roger Mann's RW-19 for a nice example of a long-travel
landing gear. He uses the oleo-pneumatic element off a big dirt bike, combined
with a stiffer after-market spring. Gives him something like 10" of travel and
you really have to see one of his landings to believe it. (The RW-19 and RW-20
are 2-place clones of the Storch.)

-R.S.Hoover