[CR]Question: Columbus octagonal forks

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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:14:36 +0100
From: "Freek Faro" <khun.freek@gmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
cc: faro@cistron.nl
Subject: [CR]Question: Columbus octagonal forks

Hi everyone,

While visiting the shop of mr. Zieleman in Amsterdam, I picked up a chromed front fork, that was rather peculiar. The upper halves of the fork legs have an octagonal shape, i.e. 8-sided. Presumably for stiffness. Is this a Columbus (rare) specialty, or something done by the framebuilder? Haven't been able to contact mr. Zieleman unfortunately, the son-in-law who is running the shop now, doesn't know. The steer tube doesn't give any info too, so my claim that it's Columbus, is because of the stickers (!) and the fork-ends: Columbus, not Campy. Interesting pictures anyway: http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/Freeks-racefietsen/octagonal/

thanks,

Freek Faro
Rotterdam Netherlands