Re: [CR]Viscount Forks and Campy Death Cranks

(Example: Humor:John Pergolizzi)

From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
To: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
References: <20050717221814.29961.qmail@web81004.mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Viscount Forks and Campy Death Cranks
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:43:08 -0400
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cc: CR <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Amen to that. No one calls the Cinelli 1A Stem a "Death Stem", not even me after mine broke the other week. And I ride my PX-10 with its AVA "death stem" all the time. I've had a DL-1 frame fracture and the Raleigh DL-1 roadster, the greatest bicycle of all time, is also the toughest. No one calls it the DL-1 of Death. Even those trying to brake in wet conditions with those rod brakes.

So I imagine a lot of this is exaggerated to some degree. I sure wouldn't call anything made by Campagnolo a "death" anything... a company that can call out of the lawyers over replica brake hoods can and most likely would sue the socks off anyone suggesting anything they made fractured or failed.

Peter Kohler, safely home after riding 57 year old British alloy and steel ('48 RRA)

Washington DC USA