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O, I guess in short you are concluding that a two wheeled leading truck can be just as good as a four wheeled leading truck given proper damping. <br /> <br />One advantage that I can see that a four wheeled truck might have over a two wheeled truck, is that any movement or forces transmitted to the frame from the truck is an average of the movement and forces acting at the extremities of the truck. <br /> <br />It seems that trailing trucks have a much longer distance from the axel center to the point of connection to the frame. It seems that would increase lateral movement for a given curve, possibly a bad thing? Or is this distance actually shorter? When compared to a leading truck's distance. It seems in either a leading or a trailing truck, a long reach to the trucks center of movement would increase lateral movement and also increase forces transmitted to the frame for a given curve?
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