Need spindle

[cody7thomas]

I have found a company that makes aftermarket spindles and clamps. I will send him a message and maybe he can chime in. Here is some dialogue we have already had.

"Side panels of spindle are made of 1/4 inch 6061 aluminum , making it about 20% stronger than factory and only weighing 8% more. When used in conjunction with our upgraded heavy duty (4 bolt) fork clamps, we have had great success .. no bent fork tube as of yet" Daryl

"The price of the OEM standard is $159.00 (2 bolt), and the price of the 4 bolt fork clamps is $279.00. a set. The pictures I am forwarding are assembled with our spindle ..sold seperatly. We do manufacture other aftermarket products as well" Daryl

I am still awaiting a price on the spindle.

 

[Ausm7499]

Yea I flew pretty far and hit a rock. Still very sore. I have found full forks for around $200 on ebay. My thinking at first is that I wouldn't have to replace them because the clamps cover that part anyhow, but then I realized the damage and I want the new clamps to have a good fit so I don't break something else.

Sure would like a new design. Anyone heard how the UFO front spindle works?

UFO has a pretty good design that appears to use bolts as the fail safe instead of the spindle it's self. I sent a PM to them inquiring about buying their spindle setup and never got a response. Like I said if somebody offered a well designed spindle at a good price I think they would sell a lot of them. The youtube link shows a closeup of the UFO spindle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrpdYt0SiA

 

[dirtrebel]

a good welder could weld up that spindle I think. although it is pretty bent! too bad u got that bolt figured out the other night or u would not have gone out! sorry!

 

[cody7thomas]

a good welder could weld up that spindle I think. although it is pretty bent! too bad u got that bolt figured out the other night or u would not have gone out! sorry!

Haha as soon as I got that front end figured out I had to try it. And that was just my luck. Thank you for your help though. I had the sequence of tightening things wrong.

 

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Moto4life I think you should start making spindles!

 

[Ausm7499]

I have found a company that makes aftermarket spindles and clamps. I will send him a message and maybe he can chime in. Here is some dialogue we have already had.

"Side panels of spindle are made of 1/4 inch 6061 aluminum , making it about 20% stronger than factory and only weighing 8% more. When used in conjunction with our upgraded heavy duty (4 bolt) fork clamps, we have had great success .. no bent fork tube as of yet" Daryl

"The price of the OEM standard is $159.00 (2 bolt), and the price of the 4 bolt fork clamps is $279.00. a set. The pictures I am forwarding are assembled with our spindle ..sold seperatly. We do manufacture other aftermarket products as well" Daryl

I am still awaiting a price on the spindle.

This is just a copy of the Timbersled setup made a little heavier. I really like the idea of not clamping to the bottom of the fork tubes. I think the UFO setup is by far the best engineered setup it attaches without clamping the tubes, uses bolts as the fail safe, and allows the angle of the spindle to be adjusted.

 

[cody7thomas]

This is just a copy of the Timbersled setup made a little heavier. I really like the idea of not clamping to the bottom of the fork tubes. I think the UFO setup is by far the best engineered setup it attaches without clamping the tubes, uses bolts as the fail safe, and allows the angle of the spindle to be adjusted.

Yea and you wonder if that is stronger what would it have broken then? Yea I like the UFO design to. 2 moto has a good design with bolting to the caliper and the bottom of the fork. But I hear it is flimsy on the bottom,

I am going to try and repair it first. Could I get the width measurement at the top from someone please. Above the axle holes. Thanks

 

[Mtn. Muncher]

Man Do I Feel For You...... I have been watching your post and I must say; out of all the “Crashed” busted up parts throughout the last 4 year of building the MH kits this one takes the cake..... You even bent the tire axle shaft!

My feelings on the spindle have been a work in progress of fine tuning them to hopefully do the least amount of damage to the bike forks in the event of an accident while staying intact for the safety of the rider. I strongly disapprove of a fail safe sheer pin design on a spindle for a Snow Bike. The problem is, you will eventually break that fail safe point when you do not want it to. This type of design will allow the spindle to rotate back making the ski go under the bike and you will eat sssssshhhhhit/ onto your face or into a tree and probably will go to the ER afterwards. Very bad idea for those that are making this design spindle assembly. Everything out there seems like a good design until it has real world testing.

cody7thomas:
Because you have won the wipeout of the decade I will provide you with a new spindle assembly for free. I need you to mail us your spindle and fork clamps so that we can keep them in our Hall of Shame for future reference to help us continue to build a better product.

Don’t feel bad, we all crash. I have wiped out many parts in my time!

Contact brett@timbersled.com and he will help you get your old part back to us and get you your new parts on there way.

Sorry for the bad luck...... Have fun and ride hard!

Allen from Timbersled

 

[Moto4Life]

Man Do I Feel For You...... I have been watching your post and I must say; out of all the “Crashed” busted up parts throughout the last 4 year of building the MH kits this one takes the cake..... You even bent the tire axel shaft!

My feelings on spindle have been work in progress of fine tuning them to hopefully do the least amount of damage to the bike forks in the event of a accident while staying intact for safety of the rider. I strongly disapprove of a fail safe sheer pin design on a spindle of a SB. The problem is, you will eventually brake that fail safe point when you do not want it to. This type of design will allow the spindle to rotate back making the ski go under the bike and you will eat sssssshhhhhit/ onto your face or into a tree and probably will go to the ER after wards. Vary bad idea for those that are making this design spindle assembly. Everything out there seems like a good design until it has real world testing.

cody7thomas:
Because you have wan the the wipe out of the decade I will provide you with a new spindle assembly for free. I need you to mail us your spindle and fork clamps so that we can keep them in our Hall of Shame for future reference to help us continue to build a better product.

Don’t feel bad we all crash. I have wiped out many parts in my time!

Contact brett@timbersled.com and he will help you get your old part back to us and get you your new parts on there way.

Sorry for the bad luck...... Have fun and ride hard!

Allen from Timbersled

Sorry but we ran the sheer pin idea on the frozenmoto's since day one. As far as I know they have never had a problem. Also I have never had a problem. So Im not exactly sure what kind of real world testing you do that would cause it to fail randomly. A fail safe sheer pin will not randomly fail and in ANY case that it would fail would be in a situation where something else would have bent or broken anyways causing a wreck. So before you go into traumatic story mode make sure you know what you are talking about. I know you want to sell your ski spindles but please don't talk **** about a design that HAS been tested and does work.

Oh and that's a sweet deal for the original poster. Stand up move so I forgive you!

 

[Moto4Life]

This is just a copy of the Timbersled setup made a little heavier. I really like the idea of not clamping to the bottom of the fork tubes. I think the UFO setup is by far the best engineered setup it attaches without clamping the tubes, uses bolts as the fail safe, and allows the angle of the spindle to be adjusted.

I also like the idea of not even using the fork tube at all. Anybody have an idea how well the 2moto style mount does. Maybe they would sell just the spindle. I think the UFO setup in designed well also. I assume they are mounting to the clamp bolts and the brake caliper mount which is then bolted to the bracket with slots. It said something about moving 6 inches or something once it breaks free. The friction force of the connections would act as a damper of sorts. I think I could accomplish this on my spindle by possibly adding cylindrical slots to the sheer bolts. Then just limit the amount of of movement of the ski frame by the slot size. This would allow for a damping effect before it got to the sheer bolts removing a substantial amount of energy from the collision.

We need right side up forks(old school) so we can just machine triple trees and mount like a boss!

Anybody know how to do multiple quotes in one post. Tired of double posting, thank!

 

[Bliss]

My 2 moto spindle does just fine, Ive never noticed any type of stress on the fork tubes and it mounts on all the OE brackets. Altho the 2 moto front ski lacks major , that's a simple change out for a better unit

 

[1dn5up]

 

[cody7thomas]

Man Do I Feel For You...... I have been watching your post and I must say; out of all the “Crashed” busted up parts throughout the last 4 year of building the MH kits this one takes the cake..... You even bent the tire axel shaft!

My feelings on spindle have been work in progress of fine tuning them to hopefully do the least amount of damage to the bike forks in the event of a accident while staying intact for safety of the rider. I strongly disapprove of a fail safe sheer pin design on a spindle of a SB. The problem is, you will eventually brake that fail safe point when you do not want it to. This type of design will allow the spindle to rotate back making the ski go under the bike and you will eat sssssshhhhhit/ onto your face or into a tree and probably will go to the ER after wards. Vary bad idea for those that are making this design spindle assembly. Everything out there seems like a good design until it has real world testing.

cody7thomas:
Because you have wan the the wipe out of the decade I will provide you with a new spindle assembly for free. I need you to mail us your spindle and fork clamps so that we can keep them in our Hall of Shame for future reference to help us continue to build a better product.

Don’t feel bad we all crash. I have wiped out many parts in my time!

Contact brett@timbersled.com and he will help you get your old part back to us and get you your new parts on there way.

Sorry for the bad luck...... Have fun and ride hard!

Allen from Timbersled

Allen,

Wow I can't thank you enough. That will help out so much you have no idea. You know when I did the demo ride Tyler Swarm told me I wouldn't be buying just a great kit and a great time but I would also being buying a piece of a great company with great support. He was right. I would be happy to be apart of TS hall of shame.

I will contact brett today. Thank You so much!!!

 

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Nice thing to do Allen!! Hope I never make the Hall of Shame!!

 

[J&L Snowhawk]

??

so was this a 14 kit with the shaft between the rear 2 clamp bolts?
I have been thinking about this alot and have come to the opinion that if the clamps were not so thin and the clamps did not move or allow the top of the spindle to bend where they bolt to it would prevent fork leg damage.

if the lower section of spindle is the weak point and takes the hit would that be better?

Alan hats off for your servie to this customer!

 

[Draxxus]

Not as bad as yours but still 400$ and tweaked fork tubes

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[cody7thomas]

so was this a 14 kit with the shaft between the rear 2 clamp bolts?
I have been thinking about this alot and have come to the opinion that if the clamps were not so thin and the clamps did not move or allow the top of the spindle to bend where they bolt to it would prevent fork leg damage.

if the lower section of spindle is the weak point and takes the hit would that be better?

Alan hats off for your servie to this customer!

No this was a 13 kit. I think that shaft could have helped though. I have talked to Brett at timbersled and that is what they are sending me.