this (below) is my intuitive thinking, (and some more
of it can be read at the puff piece at this link:)
http://www.richardsachs.com/
in the old days, forks were primitively made and made
of lower tech materials. to combat the ever present
danger of breakage, reinforcements were added inside
the crown as a way of adding a "butted" are to the part
of the fork that normally failed. a thin sheet of metal
is all that is needed to effectively strengthen up the
area, as oppossed to using a heavier guage blade; doing
former safeguards the fork (i think...) and doing the
latter makes it too heavy. and doin' the tighten up makes
me giddy. and eating twizzlers makes mouths happy.
e-RICHIE
chester, ct
2025/4
Thanks very much -- very worthwhile. Could you address the structural importance of the tangs?
Peter Bridge DenCO
In a message dated 1/22/2005 8:17:41 AM Mountain Standard Time, richardsachs@juno.com writes:
see pic 1-3 at this link as an example of
one of the faema era masi-ish crowns that
merckx's frames had:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/