A lot of people, including me, was wondering how the links are designed and where the Bearings are build in.
Now its clear, they put the bearings left and right into the Frame and smash it with a throw axel. The head of the axel is conical, so there ist a very stabel centric conection:
OK, so regarding the questions I had about the pivot design, contrary to what I assumed
earlier, the bearings are in the frame. So it's this type of pivot:
The link eyelets have shoulders that press on the inner races (directly or through shims that compensate the axial clearance). There doesn't seem to be a spacer inside the frame between the inner races. This means that if you torque the bolts too tight, the eyelets will flex inward and push the inner races inwards, crushing the balls
This is not a great pivot design, sorry to say Stef, but it's no worse than the AM831 pivot between the lower link and the front triangle. So extra care should be taken to not overtorque the bolts (and maybe the 15 Nm specs are already excessive...).
I'm not sure why they chose a conical bolt head.