350 Forza front fork surprise

[roadster]

That's interesting Roadster,
Looking at the drawing on this manual download I got, the bearings are actually caged balls, so almost the worst of both worlds! Point loading from a ball, as the ball radius is less than the race radius rather than a line from a taper - AND a cage!
I still have a feeling that the design received more influence from accountants than engineers.

Ian

Interesting indeed! But its a compromise which is halfway to being crowded but uses what is presumably a nylon cage just to make it much easier to assemble without fiddling around with the half grease/half glue that they used years ago.