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Bike is one of the best human creations. We have created the machine just like ourselves. On a careful stare, it becomes quite obvious that a bike is no different from our body. It also has legs, eyes, hand, back, belly etc but the only different observed is the design and material that each of the above specified parts are made of. Fork does the job of hands for a bike. It holds the wheels in place. It basically is the suspension of the bike that helps to absorb most of the forces coming from the road and usually try to travel up to the rider. A rigid fork will have no relative movement which in turn would transfer all the forces to the rider and make the ride jerky and uncomfortable. This is why suspension fork is fitted on a bike. Conventional telescopic suspension It is has a very easy construction with one arm inside another. The shiny chrome part which actually slides is called stanchion on the other hand the bar inside which stanchion slides is called slider bar or dampi...