What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:28 pm
I notice a lot of bikes have the banana style swinging arms lately? Function or fashion?
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What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
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Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:36 pm
say which now ?
Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:40 pm
They first appeared on 2 smokes to allow better routing for the spannies 
Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:11 pm
Yup normally for exhaust routing and also aesthetics. A lot of bikes with short systems have them
Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:50 pm
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.Yorick wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:40 pm They first appeared on 2 smokes to allow better routing for the spannies
Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:33 pm
Gen 1 Mille, now these swing arms are like a beautiful sculpture. First launched in 98.
Re: What's with all the Banana swinging arms?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:12 pm
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