Re: [CR]Re: Do you know this fork?

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:47:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Do you know this fork?
To: ritzmon@aol.com
In-Reply-To: 6667
cc: Classic Rendezvous Bike List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

i believe mark ritz is correct. i compared the photos to the fork on my medici pro strada, and they appear to be identical.

ray dobbins
miami florida


--- ritzmon@aol.com wrote:


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\r?\n> Tony,

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\r?\n> Looks like a Medici Pro Strada fork to me. Most were fully chromed

\r?\n> with a Haden crown, IIRC.

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\r?\n> Cheers,

\r?\n> Mark Ritz

\r?\n> Arcata, CA

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> CR

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I recently bought an oldish chromed fork off the Serotta forum. It's

\r?\n>

\r?\n> got a Columbus stamp on the steerer tube, and Campy dropouts. The

\r?\n> fork is 367 mm from the axle center to fork crown race face, and has

\r?\n>

\r?\n> a 36 mm offset. Neither I nor the seller know what bike the fork

\r?\n> originally came from, and I was wondering if anyone on the list might

\r?\n>

\r?\n> have either a general or specific idea?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I'm planning to build a lugged and brazed Metax frame around the

\r?\n> fork, and I'm not quite sure what head tube angle I want to use yet,

\r?\n>

\r?\n> so I thought I'd look at some bikes from the fork's original era to

\r?\n> get a sense of what the builders in that time period used.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Here are a couple of pics of the fork:

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\r?\n> http://homepage.mac.com/w.rentschler/PhotoAlbum75.html

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Thanks for any help.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Tony Rentschler

\r?\n> New York, NY