Re: [CR]Anyone interested in a vintage Viscount?

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:01:41 -0700
From: "Dan Kehew" <dan.kehew@gmail.com>
To: RB <2wheelseal@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Anyone interested in a vintage Viscount?
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> Also, can anyone tell me how to identify the whether it has the 'death
> fork'?

Recently came into possession of an astonishingly clean Viscount myself. From what I recall from earlier online hunting, mine appears to have been produced with the later steel fork as indicated by chrome extending about half-way up from the dropout. Paint match is exact, however, so I'm guessing this fork is original to the frame.

And strangely, despite the bike's clean state, I fear one comes to expect a Viscount to have the death fork. As if a Ford Pinto ain't a Ford Pinto without actual flames erupting from it.

Dan Kehew
Davis (awful hot) California