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Old 02-04-2010, 12:00 PM   #10 (permalink)
Bicycle Bob
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The steering linkage per se can be very light. Most deltas have a heavy structure to take forces to and from the steering head, which is cantilevered twice as far from the contact patch, on average. There are whole pages of tradeoffs to consider.

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