Re: [CR] Cinelli Sloping Fork Crown Origins??

Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:05:58 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
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Subject: Re: [CR] Cinelli Sloping Fork Crown Origins??

donald gillies wrote:
> A 4th type of sloping crown was made by Zeus. These looked more
> triangular from the front, and had ~3mm raised edges around the
> triangle, and they said ZEUS (I think on the backside where the brake
> nut is mounted.)

I have a couple examples of the Zeus crown here:

http://os2.dhs.org/~john/zeus-crown1.jpg http://os2.dhs.org/~john/zeus-crown.jpg

I believe the first picture is the older design. Neither one has any markings on the face or back.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA