Val and Kevin Ko wrote:
> Seller says "there is the common flaking of the finish behind the head tube
> on the top tube which was cased by vibration from the factory fork. This
> phenomenon happens to nearly every chrome bike prior to 1971 that retained
> the factory fork." It looks to me from the pictures that the bike was the
> victim of a front end collision and the forks are badly bent, and the top
> tube is probably damaged, or at least stressed enough to damage the chrome.
> Smells fishy to me!
>
> http://ebay.com/
> &rd=1
>
There's nothing obviously wrong with the frame. But the fork is clearly bent backwards slightly at the crown.
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Peter Jon White
Peter White Cycles
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