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Message: [QUOTE="Jeremy Wilkey, post: 79903, member: 17220"] The big difference with USD forks is not the bushing overlap but how the tube flexes.. If you notice modern USD forks are widest at the lower triple clmap and have a taper from top clamp and from bottom clamp. Also the chrome tube is machined at it's top. The USD fork bends and distorts the tube at the lower clamp. To use an old anlogy pushing a pecil through a bent straw is hard.. The tubes have been getting better and better as they figure out the best combination of stree over the arc of the taper. There are many varibles but the technolgy continues to improve. Ohlins has a really cool fork setup. They run very long upper tube with two sets of inner bushes... The fork has the standard bushing at the seal and then one about 4 inches into the tube.. This is a major help to slap down landings.. I'm not sure if it is patented or just everyone else is too cheap to do it.. BTW.. that is the only cool thing about Ohlins forks.. Other than that you might as well have a set of early 90 KYB's... DBD... Tube quality and size are all issues... I look at it like this.. A fork with less flex is better as it aides in control. You want good flex, you don't want bad flex. This is a function of rider ablity. (in terms of what is best) The diffrent types of flexs and strains happen with diffrent types of loads. As an industry we are still making the discoverires about what we want to bend and how. As a rule the Eruo metals seem to be of higher quality. (They can withstand higher coating temps when TI coatings are apllied..) Regards, Jer [/QUOTE]

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