Exactly my thinking .
Not liking that mod. on the Schwinn front one .
Doing it on the rear edge of a big-old flat-plate rear one doesn't seem so terrible , from a purely engineering point of view . I've seen that several times , from the original builders of fixed-gear road bicycles . And of course , I've seen it done to fixed-gear bicycles , both road and track , that never had such drilling originally .
As a modification , done on an old fixed-gear bicycle , engineering-wise ,
it's not such a bad thing .
>From the historical accuracy point of view however . . .
Raoul Delmare Marysville Kansas
( and purely as a little P.S. footnote )
( hey Brian B. , psssssttttt - are you doing any custom paint jobs on personalized custom drum sticks ?? ;^)
> I don't recall ever seeing a Campagnolo (or any) fork tip drilled for
> fenders like the one on the Bike Cult site
> (http://bikecult.com/works/dropouts.html) ... Maybe I'm just squeamish,
but
> I don't like the look of it. I know that's a strong area, and a Schwinn
fork
> to boot, but it also receives very high stress. Wouldn't the torque from
the
> spinning wheel tend to compress that very area? And that's not considering
> the additional stress of bumps, etc. Not that I'd ever do it, but what if
> one came across such a frame? It just seems like one of the less
intelligent
> places to drill a hole on a bicycle.
>
> Dennis Ryan
> Louisville, KY