That's why I just love manufactured bikes (Re: Dual-Plate trapezoidal fork, as depicted in Chuck Schmidt's ebay picture). You never know what can go wrong in bike construction until you've owned at least 50 manufactured bikes!!
Those handbuilt bikes are just too darned perfect ~ in Navajo Indian Culture, the gods demand that you put a mistake into every rug you make, so as not to offend the Gods by being too perfect !!
Handbuilt bikes ... Offending the Navajo Gods, one bike at a time !!!
:-) :-)
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA