Re: [CR]accident waiting to happen

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

From: <FujiFish1@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:28:10 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]accident waiting to happen
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Bill Boston wrote:
>There may be another explanation for the toe clip overlap on this tandem. It
>may be an optical illusion caused by the angle of the picture, but it looks
>like the forks are bent back slightly from the top. I have seen this many
>times, usually due either to chasing parked cars or being in to big of a
>hurry to get the car in the garage (aren't roof racks grand). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------- And, this is a snip fro the sellers description:
>"Full disclosure, the stoker's seat tube has a minor wrinkle (visually imperceptible, >noticeable if you run your finger down the tube) suggesting a crash and subsequent >repair sometime in the bike's life...". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------ Might that just perhaps help to explain possible "over"-overlapping appearing in the pics of this tandem? Also, as someone else suggested, look at the lower left photo, and notice that it doesn't look half as bad from a more perpendicular view.

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Best regards,
Mark Agree
Oak Park MI