> However I do know and understand a little about frame building in general..
> and it is on this this aspect of this frame that I would wish to comment
> .. This frame is definitely mid-range and is very much a production model
> ie
> large quantities, dressed up in Team livery. As has already been pointed
> out
> Raleigh even used the livery to cloak frames made of Truwel mild steel with
> pressed fork ends and bent rather than curved front fork blades.
Norris and other students and practitioners of fork fabrication:
Would you explain the last quoted sentence to a middle north-American? The distinction between bent and curved fork blades is lost on me. All of what I know about the treatment of blades is from the framebuilder's list and from English-born framebuilder Dave Moulton's
http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/
which includes "bent" and "curved" in his simplified description.
Harry Travis
Washington, DC
USA