--- Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> > I was actually aghast when I first saw that crown.
>
> Joe Starck wrote:
> > I'd say "aghast" was how I felt when I first saw
> it
> > too, Chuck. But I found a way to alter it
> sufficient
> > to keep my blood flowing, and I came to understand
> > more about its existence than those of you who
> aren't
> > allowing more than a pea's-worth of dendrites to
> > consider it. I think it's important that the top
> of
> > the crown doesn't hold yet another silly crest or
> like
> > brand emblem; that wing or sail is an inspiring
> form
> > to pedal with. Below that, the crown is a solid
> > hunk-o-metal, and that's inspiring too: it's manly
> as
> > a Mack truck behind the caliper. The crown comes
> > stock with side ovals, which I loathe; but I'm
> proud
> > of my solution to my hatred there, because, CR
> people,
> > there were cost constraints. For what you see on
> > Grantersen's crown, it was only about fifty bucks.
> I
> > challenge anybody to do better. The three circles
> or
> > portholes or discs or saucers...can be thought of
> as
> > three anything -- religion or baseball, whatever,
> but
> > their position & size are intended to enjoin the
> manly
> > space I set-off above the three dots with the open
> and
> > unlimited wave below.
>
>
> The best description of that fork crown I've ever
> heard is when someone
> used the phrase "willfully ugly" to describe it.
http://rivendellbicycles.com/
To put a prettier crown on that bike, be it with whatever number of florid appendages or with yesterday's heart-club-spade-diamond tangs - (yawn) - would be to ruin the whole bike. The stuff is all supposed to back up the badge; and it does. If you gandered a slow 360 around the badge, the badge holds its own. Blah, blah, blah on yer overwrought crowns; all that was never right on any bike anyway. It all works on this Riv -- willfull teamwork. Maybe you all need to think of the parts as if they're ballplayers. That'd make the crown a center, helmeted by the brake caliper; nice shoulder pads: the wing on top and the three eyes on the sides: triple vision!!! The badge, the quarterback, he's the purdy one. Joe Starck Madison, WI USA
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