Maybe Tony should try to buy this bike then:
Ended with no bids, probably because a lot of people thought the fork looked bent. Maybe the seller would take less than his stated opening bid if the fork really is damaged. Of course, you wonder about the frame itself. However, I've bought from this seller before and found him honest, but he does move a lot of bikes, so he may not have taken the time to closely examine the fork. My experience is that if he is aware of a defect, he will disclose it. In fact, I picked up a nice complete lugged 531 Trek bike for $200 because it had a small dent which was in reality even less noticeable than he impled in the auction.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Houston, TX
ritzmon@aol.com wrote:
Tony,
Looks like a Medici Pro Strada fork to me. Most were fully chromed with a Haden crown, IIRC.
Cheers, Mark Ritz Arcata, CA
CR
I recently bought an oldish chromed fork off the Serotta forum. It's got a Columbus stamp on the steerer tube, and Campy dropouts. The fork is 367 mm from the axle center to fork crown race face, and has a 36 mm offset. Neither I nor the seller know what bike the fork originally came from, and I was wondering if anyone on the list might have either a general or specific idea?
I'm planning to build a lugged and brazed Metax frame around the fork, and I'm not quite sure what head tube angle I want to use yet, so I thought I'd look at some bikes from the fork's original era to get a sense of what the builders in that time period used.
Here are a couple of pics of the fork:
http://homepage.mac.com/
Thanks for any help.
Tony Rentschler
New York, NY