What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
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What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
I notice a lot of bikes have the banana style swinging arms lately? Function or fashion?
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Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
They first appeared on 2 smokes to allow better routing for the spannies 
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Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Yup normally for exhaust routing and also aesthetics. A lot of bikes with short systems have them
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Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
That's a retrofit there, the RGVs with RWU forks had straight arms, I think it was brought in to allow the two pipes to go up the one side.
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Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Gen 1 Mille, now these swing arms are like a beautiful sculpture. First launched in 98.
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Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
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