High wheelers (ordinaries) have straight forks. It took a while to figure out how to get them arranged right and bend them!
Joe
At 04:14 PM 8/25/01 -800, Garrison Hilliard wrote:
>>The first straight forks I recall seeing were on mountain bikes in the 80's.
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>>Maybe they took the idea from the boys and girls in the dirt.
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>>Mark, doing a flat century tomorrow, Poore
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>Actually, didn't those turn of the century "bamboo bikes" have straight
forks?
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>Garrison, who did 125 miles last night on a loaded 1975 Nishiki
>Olympic, Hilliard