Re: [CR]Fork bend

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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:37:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David Feldman" <feldmanbike@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Fork bend
To: LouDeeter@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <500749C6.43B1B738.0269AA25@aol.com>


One guess here: How the offset is distributed matters a lot less than two other things which are the gauge of the fork blades (wall thickness) and, when the fork is constructed, whether the builder shortened the raw blade from the wide end (top) or the narrow end (bottom.) I recently made a replacement fork for a small Strawberry made out of light tubing, aside from using light blades I shortened them to length from the thick end as the original had been, both to match cosmetically and to keep from giving the bike's owner
a jackhammer.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA


--- LouDeeter@aol.com wrote:


> Whew, 26 emails CR emails overnight and half of them
> were worse than the smut emails that I delete based
> on the title! Back to bicycles. I think we
> discussed before, but does the way the fork is bent
> affect the ride if the fork tips end up with the
> same rake and trail? Example, I have a bike, RML,
> that has what I understand is called a quarter bend
> as all of the bend is in the lower 25% of the
> blades. Most of my forks are more of what would be
> called a half bend I suppose as the bend starts
> about halfway down the blade. And, then there are
> those that bend backward like the one Ray Etherton
> showed at Cirque. And I suppose that one must
> include the straight forks. Anybody have a clue
> whether the bend itself affects the ride or is it
> the overall effect of the rake and trail? Lou
> Deeter, Orlando FL
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