What Is A Hub-center Steering Motorcycle and Why Aren’t There More of Them?
Hub-center steering is one of several different types of front-end suspension and steering mechanisms used in motorcycles and cargo bicycles. It is essentially a mechanism that uses steering pivot points inside the wheel hub rather than a geometry that places the wheel in a headstock like the traditional motorcycle layout.
Perhaps the most venerable example of the idea came in the form of the 1930 Majestic. This George Roy design used a n… (continue reading…)