[Dan Richardson]

Is your fork bending or is that an optical illusion? Be very careful with this, 710 did this style of steering in '03 and it was very sucessful however our forks had a tendancy to bend and one match the entire wheel dropped out of the bottom on to the ramp.

Coincidentally we still won the match missing a wheel, wish I still had video.

But if we had attended a second competition it would have been nesc to manufacture new forks. Because once you bend it back the strength goes down dramatically. It looks like the way you mounted them ( looks like #10 hardware? ) it should be relatively easy to replace if this does happen, but with the high speeds of this game and high speed collisions I'd make sure to watch out for bending and stress fracture and figure out a way to replace them quickly in the heat of battle. Also if it does bend don't let them get too bad before yanking them out otherwise you'll be sitting with a dremel trying to cut off the heads because you'll never get the bolts out.

Looks like this will be a fun bot to drive however, for some reason I've always liked this style over ackerman, maybe because its different.