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The frame, designed for 650b wheel size, is handmade from Tange Prestige Japan (Double Butted - Heat threated) steel tubes for the front triangle with an handmade-by MILC bottom bracket - press fit 86 , same for the 44mm headtube that welcome the front soft suspension. The rear triangle is handemade from Dedacciai Adamantis with a special steel tube shape to allow flexibility for the soft tail suspension. Yes, the GOBLIN BIKES SPECIAL 01 especially built for the CONCOURS DE MACHINE 2016 is far from being a regular touring bike as this exceptional machine features a rear and a front soft suspensions...and this is not the only surprising features.
MILC's team has a serious background and history with suspension either with their experience at SUNN developing full suspension MTB and now Antidote Solutions specialized in measuring suspension efficiency but not only. You can understand now that with a such background they could not skip the integration of suspensions to this machine !
Let's start with the front suspension that has straight fork blades made of Dedicciai steel, Columbus steerer and flip-up device handmade of aluminum that received the disc-mount and the thru-axle. The suspension by itself works with 2 six-sided elastomer on each side squeezed with force in the flip-up device and also compressed with 6 flakes / piano wire to gain compression otherwise the suspension was too smooth and no working properly. A set of 3 different elastomer can be set up depending on the hardness requested. The CONCOURS DE MACHINE is like a giant lab. After the 3 races MILC has discovered some torsion on the front fork due to the strength created by the front disc brake. They are already re-thinking flip-up - front hub device to correct the propagation of the strength and prevent any risk of twist. From Veloacier. Full: http://www.veloacier.com/milc-and-goblin-bikes-innovative-touring-bike-at-concours-de-machine-2016/
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