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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1995
E Douglas Bradbury, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Manitou Mountain Bikes, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Abstract
A bicycle fork for interconnecting a bicycle wheel to a bicycle frame. The bicycle fork includes two leg assemblies, each having first and second leg members slidably engaged with each other, an elastomer for providing a biasing force when the leg members are compressed toward each other, and a fluid-based damping mechanism for providing a fluid-based damping force to resist relative movement of the leg members. The damping mechanism in one of the fork leg assemblies provides the primary compressive, fluid-based damping characteristics for the fork, while the damping mechanism in the other fork leg assembly provides the primary expansive, fluid-based damping characteristics for the fork. Each of these damping mechanisms may be adjusted without disassembling the fork to vary the damping characteristics as desired.