Kastan

[boofy44]

Since no one checks the wanted, as anyone got any Kastan stuff ?

[griff]

Came here after seeing your post iIn the wanted section
Had some Kastan bars once but swapped them with Si Diggler

[poorboyee]

didn't they do them crazy mono folks bitd..?

[boofy44]

Yeah,they're the ones.

[MartyC]

didn't they do them crazy mono folks bitd..?

Years ahead of its time

[brettypeeps]

I don't think I would want to trust those


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[Pooch]

Kastan bars MK £10

[bigfatolly]

I love the look of those mono forks but in no way in any shape or form can they be strong enough can they ??

[griff]

They manage it on motorbikes don't they?

[Dark Diggler]

Cannondale have been doing the "lefty" fork for years and not just on light duty XC bikes, still look odd though.

There's a bit of history on it here if you're curious from someone called Clive Gosling............

https://factoryjackson.com/2016/02/18/cannondale-lefty-the-story-of-half-a-fork/

[boofy44]

Seems a bit pointless to me.Wouldnt this setup have to weigh more than a normal one to be strong enough?

[rodriguez]

Cannondale have been doing the "lefty" fork for years and not just on light duty XC bikes, still look odd though.

There's a bit of history on it here if you're curious from someone called Clive Gosling............

https://factoryjackson.com/2016/02/18/cannondale-lefty-the-story-of-half-a-fork/

FJ: The Lefty is a radical design – where did the idea come from, and why did Cannondale choose to pursue it?

“In 1999, word has it that some of the mechanics were messing around with a MotoFR to prove how stiff it was. They chopped the lower in half and botched on a bolt through hub to the sprung leg, then rode it around the parking lot. The idea for Lefty was born and they wasted no time.

Brian Lopes won the slalom at Sea Otter that year on a Lefty, so it launched with a bang!

The rest is history!”

The MTB version maybe, no mention of the Kastan (BMX) or the Lotus 108 (track) which were both a few years ahead of Cannondale   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_108

[OrgasmDonor]

I would have had and raced and thrashed a uni blade with confidence.  The only reason I did not get one was because the downtube was an inch shorter than my minimum requirement to be comfortable riding it in my head,  proper freaky fooker me like  Absolutely love the kex n uniblade

 

[MartyC]

BMX innovated a lot of bike parts that only went mainstream years later; Cannondale definitely took their inspiration from Kastan no doubt about it.  Same way that mountainbiking was born; from the roots of BMX.

[Mikku]

Nothing to sell I'm afraid, but I did spot these Kastan ads in a '95 BMX Plus mag the other day:-





Beautiful-looking frames - definitely worth a close-up:-

[griff]

That's a very sexy dropout 

Would almost be a shame to grind an axle bolt into that