English terminology telescopic fork

Hi guys,
my name is Katrin and I'm a German translator, currently translating
into English (which is not my native language). At the moment I am
working on a description of a telescopic fork. People who want to order
one are supposed to check whether the steering column (Gabelschaft in
German) is "straight" or "stepped" (durchgehend or abgestuft in German).
Does that make sense to you or does it sound weird? If it sounds weird -
how would you express it?

And how would you call a set of bearings at the steering column?
Steering head bearings?

Thanks for your help. I hope I'm not too much off-topic in this group.
Maybe I could ask questions here from time to time without people
yelling at me to get the hell out of here? ;-) That would be great!

Greetings, Katrin

 

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Hmm... It does sound a little strange. But I can't think of a better way
to put it! How about changing it a little to ask whether the column has
a constant diameter, or if it changes?

Yes, that's correct.

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Oh yes, you can stay. :^)

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Slight hint of Nana Mouskouri, but otherwise not bad.

 

It's more often called the "steerer tube" rather than "steering
column".

Yes.

 

for some reason it reminded me of that "cum on my glasses" site that
Cane posted the URL to.

 

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Its called a head race

 

For "durchgehend" you could say "constant diameter"; and sometimes in
English "abgestuft" might translate as "shouldered".

It depends exactly on the engineering set-up, but "steering-head
bearing" is perfectly correct, or sometimes "steering-head race", or
just "head-race", appears fine.

HTH, but I don't know any technical German, except for a personal
interest in the aerospace technology of sixty years or so ago; I'm a
bit of a funker, you see....;-)

Likelwise.

 

....Nobody has asked yet.

Either standards are slipping or it's no longer considered pc or it's just
so last year. Or WC hasn't read your question yet.

Si

 

Last year? Try last century.

 

Either that or people are fed up with acting in a peurile and juvenile
fashion..

Phil

 

Phil Launchbury wrote

Eh?

 

or that most people have finally realised that repetition spoils the
impact of a potentially "funny" line.

 

A race is something bearings run or sit on, not bearings themselves.

 

That too..

Phil

 

Well obviously not you - I would never dare suggest you might not act
in a peurile and juvenile fashion.

Phil

 

Phil Launchbury wrote

 

Again?

Phil

 

ball or roller

 

Katrin Reis says...

The tube that runs upwards through the headstock on the frame is
normally welded to the bottom yoke (the bottom yoke has two 'eyes' that
hold the telescopic forks from below the frame). We call that tube the
'steering stem' and they can be either stepped (as you rightly say) or
parallel (or as you say "straight").

Correct, but we don't call it a steering column. It's the headstock
(part of the frame) and steering stem (tube going upwards from bottom
yoke) that take the 2-part bearings.

If you need pictures with descriptions then please ask. I'll draw some
and email them if needed.